Bug 2528693 (CVE-2026-80838) - CVE-2026-80838 kernel: vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush
Summary: CVE-2026-80838 kernel: vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80838
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-09-04 16:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-26 13:32 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-04 16:24:17 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush

A non-nexthop FDB entry is expected to have at least one remote while it
remains reachable through the FDB hash table. A filtered bulk flush
violates this invariant when every remote matches: It unlinks the last
remote in vxlan_fdb_dst_destroy() and only afterwards tells vxlan_flush()
to destroy the parent FDB entry.

An RCU reader can find the parent during this interval.
first_remote_rcu() then applies list_entry_rcu() to the empty list head,
producing an invalid remote pointer that the receive learning path can
read from and write to.

When a matching remote is the sole remaining remote, leave it linked and
ask the caller to destroy the entire FDB entry. vxlan_fdb_destroy() keeps
the remote attached while sending the deletion notification and removing
the parent from the lookup structures.


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