UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-80792
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
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c770ac4e6f07af7c7b40c474a3efc61ffed7862
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dc98e5fe82d069dd29b124ffbdb679331dfea43
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73a187384a8c8b983c7fea046d716b6752a1e7a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75e0a544ebe9af663ef53ca21e9e9185c51fb54a
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-04 via NVD.
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