CVE-2026-64538
Received
Received - Intake
Null Pointer Dereference in Linux Kernel IPv6 Networking
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-64538, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-07-27
Last updated on: 2026-07-27
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in fib6_nh_mtu_change().
fib6_nh_mtu_change() re-fetches idev via __in6_dev_get(arg->dev) and
dereferences idev->cnf.mtu6 without a NULL check. addrconf_ifdown()
clears dev->ip6_ptr with RCU_INIT_POINTER() after rt6_disable_ip() has
released tb6_lock, so the RA-driven MTU walk can observe a NULL idev and
oops. The caller rt6_mtu_change_route() guards its own __in6_dev_get(),
but this re-fetch is unguarded; nexthop-backed routes survive
addrconf_ifdown()'s flush, so the walk still reaches it after ip6_ptr is
nulled.
Return 0 when idev is NULL, matching rt6_mtu_change_route() and the
fib6_mtu() fix in commit 5ad509c1fdad ("ipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in
fib6_mtu().").
Oops: general protection fault, ... KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range
[0x00000000000002a8-0x00000000000002af]
RIP: 0010:fib6_nh_mtu_change+0x203/0x990
rt6_mtu_change_route+0x141/0x1d0
__fib6_clean_all+0xd0/0x160
rt6_mtu_change+0xb4/0x100
ndisc_router_discovery+0x24b5/0x2cb0
icmpv6_rcv+0x12e9/0x1710
ipv6_rcv+0x39b/0x410
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
