Bug 2492751 (CVE-2026-53221) - CVE-2026-53221 kernel: ip6_vti: fix incorrect tunnel matching in vti6_tnl_lookup()
Summary: CVE-2026-53221 kernel: ip6_vti: fix incorrect tunnel matching in vti6_tnl_loo...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53221
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-25 10:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-25 23:11 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 10:03:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ip6_vti: fix incorrect tunnel matching in vti6_tnl_lookup()

In vti6_tnl_lookup(), when an exact match for a tunnel fails,
the code falls back to searching for wildcard tunnels:

- Tunnels matching the packet's local address, with any remote address
  wildcard remote).

- Tunnels matching the packet's remote address, with any local address
  (wildcard local).

However, vti6 stores all these different types of tunnels in the same
hash table (ip6n->tnls_r_l) prone to hash collisions.

The bug is that the fallback search loops in vti6_tnl_lookup() were
missing checks to ensure that the candidate tunnel actually has
a wildcard address.


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