Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-selftests-internal  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELSELFTESTSINTERNAL-13695250
  • published24 Oct 2025
  • disclosed22 Oct 2025

Introduced: 22 Oct 2025

CVE-2023-53705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-selftests-internal package and not the kernel-selftests-internal package as distributed by Centos.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv()

optlen is fetched without checking whether there is more than one byte to parse. It can lead to out-of-bounds access.

Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.