CVE-2026-43233

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The subsequent get_len() call then dereferences\n*bs->cur++, reading 1 byte past the end of the buffer. If that byte\nhas bit 7 set, get_len() reads a second byte as well.\n\nThis can be triggered remotely by sending a crafted Q.931 SETUP message\nwith a User-User Information Element containing exactly 2 bytes of\nPER-encoded data ({0x08, 0x00}) to port 1720 through a firewall with\nthe nf_conntrack_h323 helper active. The decoder fully consumes the\nPER buffer before reaching this code path, resulting in a 1-2 byte\nheap-buffer-overflow read confirmed by AddressSanitizer.\n\nFix this by checking for 2 bytes (the maximum that get_len() may read)\ninstead of the uninitialized `len`. 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This matches the pattern used at\nevery other get_len() call site in the same file, where the caller\nchecks for 2 bytes of available data before calling get_len()."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\nnetfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: correcci\u00f3n de lectura OOB en decode_choice()\n\nEn decode_choice(), la comprobaci\u00f3n de l\u00edmites antes de get_len() utiliza la variable \u2019len\u2019, que sigue siendo 0 desde su inicializaci\u00f3n al principio de la funci\u00f3n:\n\n unsigned int type, ext, len = 0;\n ...\n if (ext || (son -> attr & OPEN)) {\n BYTE_ALIGN(bs);\n if (nf_h323_error_boundary(bs, len, 0)) /* len es 0 aqu\u00ed */\n return H323_ERROR_BOUND;\n len = get_len(bs); /* Lectura OOB */\n\nCuando el flujo de bits se consume exactamente (bs -> cur == bs -> end), la comprobaci\u00f3n nf_h323_error_boundary(bs, 0, 0) se eval\u00faa como (bs -> cur + 0 > bs -> end), lo cual es falso. 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