CVE-2026-80603

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The byte\nis uninitialized or stale; if it contains an ASCII digit, simple_strtoul\nwill consume it and produce a wrong DCC IP or port in the conntrack\nexpectation. The extra allocation byte is also a fragile guard: if the\ncap or allocation size changes, this becomes a real out-of-bounds read.\n\nChange the loop and its post-loop check to use strict less-than,\nconsistent with the caller's exclusive-end convention. Update the\nfunction comment accordingly."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N", "baseScore": 9.1, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - The bug is reached from attacker-controlled TCP payloads on IPv4 flows processed by nf_confirm() (POST_ROUTING/LOCAL_IN) when the IRC conntrack helper is attached, e.g. on an IRC-exposed host or NAT/firewall handling IRC/DCC through netfilter.\nAC:L - Once the IRC helper is active on a tracked flow, exploitation is deterministic: the attacker completes a TCP handshake, sends a crafted client-to-server PRIVMSG/CTCP DCC without a newline at the copy boundary, and can plant the stale byte via the shared global irc_buffer.\nPR:N - No local account or kernel capabilities are required; a remote peer only needs to send network traffic on a connection where the administrator has enabled the IRC helper. 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