CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-23457

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.43%

35th percentile - higher than 35% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the netfilter nf_conntrack_sip module has a vulnerability where Content-Length is truncated from unsigned long to unsigned int in sip_help_tcp(). On 64-bit systems, values exceeding UINT_MAX are silently truncated, causing incorrect SIP message boundary calculation and potentially processing trailing data as a second SIP message.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can send a crafted SIP packet with an inflated Content-Length value, leading to incorrect data interpretation and potentially man-in-the-middle attacks or firewall rule bypass.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that changes the clen variable type to unsigned long and rejects Content-Length values exceeding the remaining TCP payload length.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix Content-Length u32 truncation in sip_help_tcp() sip_help_tcp() parses the SIP Content-Length header with simple_strtoul(), which returns unsigned long, but stores the result in unsigned int clen. On 64-bit systems, values exceeding UINT_MAX are silently truncated before computing the SIP message boundary. For example, Content-Length 4294967328 (2^32 + 32) is truncated to 32, causing the parser to miscalculate where the current message ends. The loop then treats trailing data in the TCP segment as a second SIP message and processes it through the SDP parser. Fix this by changing clen to unsigned long to match the return type of simple_strtoul(), and reject Content-Length values that exceed the remaining TCP payload length.

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