CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98487
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: mdb: restart port group walk after deletion
br_mdb_flush_pgs() keeps a pointer-to-pointer cursor while walking
mp->ports. br_multicast_del_pg() can re-enter the same MDB entry through
br_multicast_sg_del_exclude_ports() and unlink other port groups. If the
cursor points into one of those groups, the next iteration dereferences a
stale cursor and can leave mp->ports pointing at freed memory.
A following RTM_GETMDB exposes the dangling pointer:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in br_mdb_dump
Read of size 8
br_mdb_dump
rtnl_mdb_dump
rtnl_dumpit
netlink_dump
Reset the cursor to mp->ports after every deletion. The deletion removes at
least the selected group, so the restarted walk always makes progress.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46ec55855c972504258c371677ac039ba20e5d12 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab1404ac81154a89fb61ac50ae9a04cd8d4834dc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab3c4a4c85f2e1e8d04b5c1770dea8412d21c7fe git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2a42789c12eb7c5d3a42191e2cc735a6c35ead git.kernel.org