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CVE-2026-43190
Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: xt_tcpmss: check remaining length before reading optlen

Quoting reporter:
In net/netfilter/xt_tcpmss.c (lines 53-68), the TCP option parser reads
op[i+1] directly without validating the remaining option length.

If the last byte of the option field is not EOL/NOP (0/1), the code attempts
to index op[i+1]. In the case where i + 1 == optlen, this causes an
out-of-bounds read, accessing memory past the optlen boundary
(either reading beyond the stack buffer _opt or the
following payload).

Publication Date May 6, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
Registration Date May 7, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
Last Update May 6, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
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