GHSA-wxvj-hc4r-fq45MediumCVSS 6.5

Nmap through 7.99 does not keep the IPv6 extension-header walk within the captured packet in...

Published
June 28, 2026
Last Modified
June 28, 2026

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📋 Description

Nmap through 7.99 does not keep the IPv6 extension-header walk within the captured packet in ipv6_get_data_primitive (libnetutil/netutil.cc), so the pointer advances past the buffer and the remaining-length computation underflows to a large value. A scanned target or on-path attacker returning a crafted IPv6 response with a truncated extension header can trigger out-of-bounds reads and a crash during raw IPv6 scans.

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