CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80838
- 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:
vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush
A non-nexthop FDB entry is expected to have at least one remote while it
remains reachable through the FDB hash table. A filtered bulk flush
violates this invariant when every remote matches: It unlinks the last
remote in vxlan_fdb_dst_destroy() and only afterwards tells vxlan_flush()
to destroy the parent FDB entry.
An RCU reader can find the parent during this interval.
first_remote_rcu() then applies list_entry_rcu() to the empty list head,
producing an invalid remote pointer that the receive learning path can
read from and write to.
When a matching remote is the sole remaining remote, leave it linked and
ask the caller to destroy the entire FDB entry. vxlan_fdb_destroy() keeps
the remote attached while sending the deletion notification and removing
the parent from the lookup structures.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a7c2f00843225d5f037676bca649321f3d024c7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bbc76ee1b21d3bd045d6d819b2bacd30a6372ab git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ba68fd6cdd1e3c92b92f25c7e48bf7bd51a183c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8820c8a7718327e96849782033e7c85a0f6bcfe git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5d4a7b538b52db63927773a8905fcd9f78a42e2 git.kernel.org