Bug 2532326 (CVE-2026-89564) - CVE-2026-89564 kernel: ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding
Summary: CVE-2026-89564 kernel: ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-89564
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-11 22:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-16 10:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 22:22:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding

IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb->sk association installed by
bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under
RCU. Both address families can also prefetch a socket in UDP early demux.
In both paths (BPF and UDP early demux) a reference is not guaranteed to
be held on the socket.

When a multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the
original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the
original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the
skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the
receive-side RCU section ends.

After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes
sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb->sk. Orphan the skb before
each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the
original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding
with a socket-free clone.


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