Bug 2554847 (CVE-2026-98487) - CVE-2026-98487 kernel: net: bridge: mdb: restart port group walk after deletion
Summary: CVE-2026-98487 kernel: net: bridge: mdb: restart port group walk after deletion
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98487
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 11:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:22:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: bridge: mdb: restart port group walk after deletion

br_mdb_flush_pgs() keeps a pointer-to-pointer cursor while walking
mp->ports. br_multicast_del_pg() can re-enter the same MDB entry through
br_multicast_sg_del_exclude_ports() and unlink other port groups. If the
cursor points into one of those groups, the next iteration dereferences a
stale cursor and can leave mp->ports pointing at freed memory.

A following RTM_GETMDB exposes the dangling pointer:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in br_mdb_dump
  Read of size 8
    br_mdb_dump
    rtnl_mdb_dump
    rtnl_dumpit
    netlink_dump

Reset the cursor to mp->ports after every deletion. The deletion removes at
least the selected group, so the restarted walk always makes progress.


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