Bug 2559719 (CVE-2026-99073) - CVE-2026-99073 kernel: ipv4: stop exception dump when nexthop group shrinks
Summary: CVE-2026-99073 kernel: ipv4: stop exception dump when nexthop group shrinks
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99073
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 DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-23 13:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-26 12:13 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 13:22:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv4: stop exception dump when nexthop group shrinks

Commit 4ce5dc9316de ("inet: switch inet_dump_fib() to RCU
protection") allowed IPv4 FIB dumps to run concurrently with nexthop
replacement.

fib_dump_info_fnhe() uses fib_info_num_path() as the loop bound,
then fib_info_nhc() independently reloads nh->nh_grp. If
RTM_NEWNEXTHOP replaces a group with fewer paths between those loads,
fib_info_nhc() returns NULL and the dump dereferences it through
nhc_flags.

Stop the walk when the indexed path is absent. Nexthop groups are
dense, so the current snapshot has no later path.


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