CVE-2026-31472: xfrm: iptfs: validate inner IPv4 header length in IPTFS payload

Published Apr 22, 2026
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Updated

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

xfrm: iptfs: validate inner IPv4 header length in IPTFS payload

Add validation of the inner IPv4 packet totlen and ihl fields parsed from decrypted IPTFS payloads in inputprocesspayload(). A crafted ESP packet containing an inner IPv4 header with totlen=0 causes an infinite loop: iplen=0 leads to capturelen=min(0, remaining)=0, so the data offset never advances and the while(data < tail) loop never terminates, spinning forever in softirq context.

Reject inner IPv4 packets where totlen < ihl4 or ihl4 < sizeof(struct iphdr), which catches both the totlen=0 case and malformed ihl values. The normal IP stack performs this validation in iprcvcore(), but IPTFS extracts and processes inner packets before they reach that layer.

Affected Software

11 affected components
Linux Linux kernel
Linux Linux kernel>=6.14.1<6.18.21
Linux Linux kernel>=6.19<6.19.11
Linux Linux kernel=6.14
Linux Linux kernel=7.0-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=7.0-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=7.0-rc3
Linux Linux kernel=7.0-rc4
Linux Linux kernel=7.0-rc5
Linux Linux kernel=7.0-rc6
Linux Linux kernel=7.0-rc7

Event History

Apr 22, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·01:54 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·01:54 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·02:16 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

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