Bug 2532170 (CVE-2026-80996) - CVE-2026-80996 kernel: net: l2tp: do not propagate multicast notification errors
Summary: CVE-2026-80996 kernel: net: l2tp: do not propagate multicast notification errors
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80996
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-11 21:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-14 20:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 21:05:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: l2tp: do not propagate multicast notification errors

The tunnel create, tunnel modify, session create, and session modify
netlink handlers send multicast notifications through helpers that can fail
while allocating or encoding a message, or while multicasting it.

For tunnel and session create/modify, a notification is sent after the live
operation has completed. Returning a best-effort notification error as the
command result can therefore report failure for an operation that already
committed and can cause callers to retry and accumulate live objects.

Keep sending notifications for listener visibility, but do not propagate
their best-effort status as the command result. This also keeps the tunnel
modify command consistent with the other notification-only paths.


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