CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80792
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: fix use-after-free in ip6_finish_output2()
ip6_finish_output2() caches a pointer to the IPv6 destination
address (daddr) before invoking lwtunnel_xmit(). The LWT-BPF
transmit path or other encapsulation operations within
lwtunnel_xmit() can reallocate the skb head, freeing the memory
that daddr points to. When lwtunnel_xmit() returns
LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE, the function continues to use the stale
daddr pointer to compute the nexthop and to look up or create the
neighbour entry. This results in a use-after-free read, which can
leak sensitive kernel data, pollute the neighbour table with
arbitrary values, misdirect traffic, or crash the system.
Fix this by re-fetching the IPv6 header and the destination
address pointer after lwtunnel_xmit() returns
LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE, ensuring that the subsequent nexthop
computation and neighbour lookup operate on valid memory.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/087ee0d914aaae929f1660c9ca878e367655ba1a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c770ac4e6f07af7c7b40c474a3efc61ffed7862 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dc98e5fe82d069dd29b124ffbdb679331dfea43 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73a187384a8c8b983c7fea046d716b6752a1e7a3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75e0a544ebe9af663ef53ca21e9e9185c51fb54a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99219c82804f266189388e8bf1cf5135d10d5515 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c95f01b78266828a57060d754fcbfc92123a98ed git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0d48d999b0eee6bb176ef4e39d9be868fa80f7e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d960881b9312e781a3429aabceb223ce6b7c882f git.kernel.org