CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46086
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Undergoing Analysis
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- 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: use a stable FDB dst snapshot in RCU readers
Local FDB entries can be rewritten in place by `fdb_delete_local()`, which
updates `f->dst` to another port or to `NULL` while keeping the entry
alive. Several bridge RCU readers inspect `f->dst`, including
`br_fdb_fillbuf()` through the `brforward_read()` sysfs path.
These readers currently load `f->dst` multiple times and can therefore
observe inconsistent values across the check and later dereference.
In `br_fdb_fillbuf()`, this means a concurrent local-FDB update can change
`f->dst` after the NULL check and before the `port_no` dereference,
leading to a NULL-ptr-deref.
Fix this by taking a single `READ_ONCE()` snapshot of `f->dst` in each
affected RCU reader and using that snapshot for the rest of the access
sequence. Also publish the in-place `f->dst` updates in `fdb_delete_local()`
with `WRITE_ONCE()` so the readers and writer use matching access patterns.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.14.1 < 5.10.259)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.210)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.140)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.86)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.27)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.4)
• linux linux kernel 3.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b9e4bbfb7c949151e3acd44ed4aa33614d2e110 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1406c4e0ed1eaf8a29801ab1163d00fb7ee4359a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5424e678f9b304e148cf5dcc047cffc7a56a3bb5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81af4137a30c4c2dc694dea8cacb180bd66000ef Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a2d9d4e657b23dc21f24cf139e3aeff0b61341f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6ae4511c07b91f597e461406c6330f0d4ff810e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c502fa9f094cb03d1d1685c71e2105ab359bc2b8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df4601653201de21b487c3e7fffd464790cab808 Patch
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