CVE-2026-23304 (GCVE-0-2026-23304)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-25 10:26 – Updated: 2026-03-25 10:26
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Title
ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu() l3mdev_master_dev_rcu() can return NULL when the slave device is being un-slaved from a VRF. All other callers deal with this, but we lost the fallback to loopback in ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() -> ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu() with commit 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on device with address"). KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f] RIP: 0010:ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc (net/ipv6/route.c:1418) Call Trace: ip6_pol_route (net/ipv6/route.c:2318) fib6_rule_lookup (net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:115) ip6_route_output_flags (net/ipv6/route.c:2607) vrf_process_v6_outbound (drivers/net/vrf.c:437) I was tempted to rework the un-slaving code to clear the flag first and insert synchronize_rcu() before we remove the upper. But looks like the explicit fallback to loopback_dev is an established pattern. And I guess avoiding the synchronize_rcu() is nice, too.
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Linux Linux Affected: 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d , < 4a48fe59f29f673a3d042d679f26629a9c3e29d4 (git)
Affected: 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d , < 581800298313c9fd75e94985e6d37d21b7e35d34 (git)
Affected: 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d , < 3310fc11fc47387d1dd4759b0bc961643ea11c7f (git)
Affected: 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d , < 0b5a7826020706057cc5a9d9009e667027f221ee (git)
Affected: 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d , < ae88c8256547b63980770a9ea7be73a15900d27e (git)
Affected: 4832c30d5458387ff2533ff66fbde26ad8bb5a2d , < 2ffb4f5c2ccb2fa1c049dd11899aee7967deef5a (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.167 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.77 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.17 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.7 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0-rc3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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