CVE-2026-23300

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: fix panic when IPv4 route references loopback IPv6 nexthop When a standalone IPv6 nexthop object is created with a loopback device e.g., "ip -6 nexthop add id 100 dev lo", fib6nhinit misclassifies it as a reject route...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: Fixed a memory leak in nhcpcpurthoutput within fibchecknhv6gw. The function fibchecknhv6gw assumes that fib6nhinit will clean up everything when it fails. The commit 7dd73168e273 „ipv6: Always allocate pcpu memory in fib6nh...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40961

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6nhinit syzbot reminds us that in6devget can return NULL. fib6nhinit ip6validategw &idev ip6routechecknh idev idev = in6devgetdev; // can be NULL Oops: general protection fault, probably fo...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux Foundation's open source operating system Linux. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from an error in the fib6nhflushexceptions method of the ipv6 module...