Bug 2541247 (CVE-2026-98031)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-98031 kernel: nexthop: Initialize extack in remove_nh_grp_entry() | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. When removing a nexthop routing group entry, an error path fails to properly initialize an error-reporting pointer, causing the kernel to dereference uninitialized stack memory. A local user with network administration privileges could exploit this flaw during memory allocation failures to cause a kernel crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nexthop: Initialize extack in remove_nh_grp_entry() remove_nh_grp_entry() prints the extack message when a listener fails to replace the reduced nexthop group. However, extack is not initialized and listeners are not required to set a message when returning an error. Neither netdevsim nor mlxsw do so when an allocation fails, resulting in the dereference of an uninitialized stack pointer. Fix by zero-initializing extack, as was done in commit 6347c5314cee ("nexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate()").