CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97939
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmr: account multicast table and route memory
A netadmin in a user+net namespace can create many IPv4 and IPv6
multicast routing tables with MRT_TABLE and MRT6_TABLE. Each unseen
id allocates an mr_table via the shared mr_table_alloc(), links it
into the per-net list, and leaves it until netns teardown. Those
objects were not charged to memcg, so the host unreclaimable slab
grows with the table count.
Account mr_table allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT and mark the
IPv4/IPv6 MFC caches SLAB_ACCOUNT. This matches the established
handling of IP addresses, routes and alternate interface names.
Unresolved MFC entries are still allocated from softIRQ with
GFP_ATOMIC and are not charged. They expire after 10 seconds and are
bounded by the socket receive queue; see commit 0079ad8e8dc3
("ipmr: remove hard code cache_resolve_queue_len limit").
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0264b3ee09b118fec8a5471b4ca288f8ab84722f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21e0749e8ef272ac7e3eefe0fa488a5983f4b038 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7ee18725f2292ab554aa96a101ae42d45f008bd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0a2e2a4ee6bfe51e398bfb6921a7d0f4c26bc1c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec1c6140394ee87127479bc500a3158b125bf07a git.kernel.org