Bug 2508327 - CVE-2026-64538 fex-emu: ipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in fib6_nh_mtu_change() [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-64538 fex-emu: ipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in fib6_nh_mtu_change() [fed...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fex-emu
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Davide Cavalca
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Blocks: CVE-2026-64538
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Reported: 2026-07-29 09:12 UTC by jkelly
Modified: 2026-08-17 15:40 UTC (History)
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Description jkelly 2026-07-29 09:12:29 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

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

ipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in fib6_nh_mtu_change().

fib6_nh_mtu_change() re-fetches idev via __in6_dev_get(arg->dev) and
dereferences idev->cnf.mtu6 without a NULL check. addrconf_ifdown()
clears dev->ip6_ptr with RCU_INIT_POINTER() after rt6_disable_ip() has
released tb6_lock, so the RA-driven MTU walk can observe a NULL idev and
oops. The caller rt6_mtu_change_route() guards its own __in6_dev_get(),
but this re-fetch is unguarded; nexthop-backed routes survive
addrconf_ifdown()'s flush, so the walk still reaches it after ip6_ptr is
nulled.

Return 0 when idev is NULL, matching rt6_mtu_change_route() and the
fib6_mtu() fix in commit 5ad509c1fdad ("ipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in
fib6_mtu().").

  Oops: general protection fault, ... KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range
        [0x00000000000002a8-0x00000000000002af]
  RIP: 0010:fib6_nh_mtu_change+0x203/0x990
   rt6_mtu_change_route+0x141/0x1d0
   __fib6_clean_all+0xd0/0x160
   rt6_mtu_change+0xb4/0x100
   ndisc_router_discovery+0x24b5/0x2cb0
   icmpv6_rcv+0x12e9/0x1710
   ipv6_rcv+0x39b/0x410

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:40:08 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.


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