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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-13351 EUVD-2026-39478

net: Maliciously fragmented IPv6 packets can prevent receiving/processing future incoming packets

Published Jun 25, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by zephyr

Description

Zephyr's IPv6 network stack can be prevented from receiving or processing future incoming packets by sending a small number of maliciously fragmented IPv6 packets. When such a packet is handled by the fragment-header processing path, the associated RX network packet buffer (allocated from a memory slab) is not released back to the pool. Repeating the malicious packet exhausts all RX buffer slots, after which the device can no longer obtain RX buffers and stops receiving traffic, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr — —

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