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CVE-2025-40363
medium
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: fix field-spanning memcpy warning in AH output Fix field-spanning memcpy warnings in ah6_output() and ah6_output_done() where extension headers are copied to/from IPv6 address fields, triggering fortify-string warnings about writes beyond the 16-byte address fields. memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 40) of single field "&top_iph->saddr" at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 (size 16) WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8838 at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 ah6_output+0xe7e/0x14e0 net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 The warnings are false positives as the extension headers are intentionally placed after the IPv6 header in memory. Fix by properly copying addresses and extension headers separately, and introduce helper functions to avoid code duplication.
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f28dde240160f3c48a50d641d210ed6a3b9596ed
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c14cf41094136691c92ef756872570645d61f4a1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b056f971bd72b373b7ae2025a8f3bd18f69653d3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bf27de51bd6db5ff827780ec0eba55de230ba45
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75b16b2755e12999ad850756ddfb88ad4bfc7186
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2da805a61ef5272a2773775ce14c3650adb84248
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2327a3d6f65ce2fe2634546dde4a25ef52296fec
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf756ae1e69fec5e6332c37830488315d6d771b