ROS-20260121-73-0001

A vulnerability in the ndiscallocskb function of the net/ipv6/ndisc.c module of the Linux kernel IPv6 protocol implementation is related to the reuse of previously freed memory. Exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an intruder to affect confidentiality, integrity and availability of...

RLSA-2025:8333 Moderate: kernel security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: Use after Free in grusetcontextoption leading to kernel panic CVE-2022-3424 kernel: ndisc: use RCU protection in ndiscallocskb CVE-2025-21764 For more details about the security issues,...

kernel: ndisc: use RCU protection in ndisc_alloc_skb()

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 Neighbor Discovery NDISC subsystem, which manages network neighbor information. The issue arises from improper synchronization mechanisms when allocating socket buffers skbuff in the ndiscallocskb function. Specifically, the function can be...