Bug 2454807 (CVE-2026-23442) - CVE-2026-23442 kernel: ipv6: add NULL checks for idev in SRv6 paths
Summary: CVE-2026-23442 kernel: ipv6: add NULL checks for idev in SRv6 paths
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23442
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-04-03 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-03 19:30 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-03 16:01:47 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: add NULL checks for idev in SRv6 paths

__in6_dev_get() can return NULL when the device has no IPv6 configuration
(e.g. MTU < IPV6_MIN_MTU or after NETDEV_UNREGISTER).

Add NULL checks for idev returned by __in6_dev_get() in both
seg6_hmac_validate_skb() and ipv6_srh_rcv() to prevent potential NULL
pointer dereferences.


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