CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43099
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe()
ipv6_stub->ipv6_dev_find() may return ERR_PTR(-EAFNOSUPPORT) when the
IPv6 stack is not active (CONFIG_IPV6=m and not loaded), and passing
this error pointer to dev_hold() will cause a kernel crash with
null-ptr-deref.
Instead, silently discard the request. RFC 8335 does not appear to
define a specific response for the case where an IPv6 interface
identifier is syntactically valid but the implementation cannot perform
the lookup at runtime, and silently dropping the request may safer than
misreporting "No Such Interface".
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 6.6.136)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.83)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.14)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f21bc261e60f0c696c58841c4873ff77ed83673 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47a8bf52156ac7e7a581eca31c1f964ba4258d4d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b9911582d441f72fe6ccb15ffe3303bbc07f6f5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6be325206850a0891896d38bcf83a09d8b54ec48 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc5db4db19766a61ad65d81d1f55b1c1e51ba78d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f91b3ed9e7fa82a70511b5f6901c88379acf2964 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde29fd9349327acc50d19a0b5f3d5a6c964dfd8 Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com