Linux Kernel CVE-2026-43501 (CVSS 9.8) Exploit and Full Details Released for IPv6 RPL Flaw
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TL;DR
Full technical details and a working exploit are now public for CVE-2026-43501, a Linux kernel IPv6 vulnerability rated CVSS 9.8 by the kernel’s CVE team. The out-of-bounds write sits in the RPL source routing header code. Researchers used it to escape a container on Google’s Container-Optimized OS (COS) in the kernelCTF program.
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