CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98031
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nexthop: Initialize extack in remove_nh_grp_entry()
remove_nh_grp_entry() prints the extack message when a listener fails
to replace the reduced nexthop group. However, extack is not
initialized and listeners are not required to set a message when
returning an error. Neither netdevsim nor mlxsw do so when an
allocation fails, resulting in the dereference of an uninitialized
stack pointer.
Fix by zero-initializing extack, as was done in commit 6347c5314cee
("nexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate()").
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/030c878eaedf0449e2b5401a0a0146d0afcc645e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17acbcd4c5a6ca3dd3f9e52eb203c9175bde609a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35d9ec61466109ef0c2de87067338d929f629527 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bd9e4e7cdaa03879e9b73b12ab52cceb1edd55b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/704319510af2179cf03955747d714ab291075c25 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d643cea4248668dc493c513aa7cbc6505eb1a4a9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d80677ad7aa5bebfccfd58caa4852b65abe70561 git.kernel.org