CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23381
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
When booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, the nd_tbl is never
initialized because inet6_init() exits before ndisc_init() is called
which initializes it. Then, if neigh_suppress is enabled and an ICMPv6
Neighbor Discovery packet reaches the bridge, br_do_suppress_nd() will
dereference ipv6_stub->nd_tbl which is NULL, passing it to
neigh_lookup(). This causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000268
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[...]
RIP: 0010:neigh_lookup+0x16/0xe0
[...]
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
? neigh_lookup+0x16/0xe0
br_do_suppress_nd+0x160/0x290 [bridge]
br_handle_frame_finish+0x500/0x620 [bridge]
br_handle_frame+0x353/0x440 [bridge]
__netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x298/0x1110
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x3d/0xa0
process_backlog+0xa0/0x140
__napi_poll+0x2c/0x170
net_rx_action+0x2c4/0x3a0
handle_softirqs+0xd0/0x270
do_softirq+0x3f/0x60
Fix this by replacing IS_ENABLED(IPV6) call with ipv6_mod_enabled() in
the callers. This is in essence disabling NS/NA suppression when IPv6 is
disabled.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15.1 < 5.10.253)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.203)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.167)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.77)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.7)
• linux linux kernel 4.15
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20ef5c25422f97dd09d751e5ae6c18406cdc78e6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33dec6f10777d5a8f71c0a200f690da5ae3c2e55 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a894eb5de246d79f13105c55a67381039a24d44 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a12cdaa3375f0bd3c8f4e564be7c143529abfe5b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5c56e65b685360dd3f2278aeff8c21061feb665 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9d712ccfeef737c0e700a4b5b98f310e07b6b60 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa73deb3b6b730ec280d45b3f423bfa9e17bc122 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5e890630533bdc15b26a34bb8e7ef539bdf1322 Patch
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