Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: skip ipv6 extension headers for csum checks Protocol checksum validation fails for IPv6 if there are extension headers before the protocol header. iph->len already contains its offset, so use it to fix the problem.

References 8

• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05cfe9863ef049d98141dc2969eefde72fb07625
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf92a90bf05ecafe52e92d5bc15a585021a64ac
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54add3b7d3c154ca89ef5bac2582b0ed1a3a15d5
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/768f665f3685b455ed686370ed7ccb852a125a3b
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9aa7edc1347b98774e5167ca34e5b8aa6083bde7
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3ca27762ce8476b4fbf9b2a8f5cb74c38e483e4
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdce1e797addab72393c0dfee31aaca41ef7d937
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d643c1ec80b70508f54dac12179e36920e2c00de

Remediation