CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-23456

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.52%

41th percentile - higher than 41% of all known CVEs

Summary

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's netfilter nf_conntrack_h323 module in the decode_int() function's CONS case. Missing boundary check allows reading 1-4 bytes beyond the allocated buffer via a crafted H.323/RAS packet.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could cause kernel memory information disclosure or system crash by sending a specially crafted network packet.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit adding boundary check before get_uint() call).

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_int() CONS case In decode_int(), the CONS case calls get_bits(bs, 2) to read a length value, then calls get_uint(bs, len) without checking that len bytes remain in the buffer. The existing boundary check only validates the 2 bits for get_bits(), not the subsequent 1-4 bytes that get_uint() reads. This allows a malformed H.323/RAS packet to cause a 1-4 byte slab-out-of-bounds read. Add a boundary check for len bytes after get_bits() and before get_uint().

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