CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2026-64116
High (7.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: ioam: add NULL check for idev in ipv6_hop_ioam()
Reported by Sashiko:
The function ipv6_hop_ioam() accesses
__in6_dev_get(skb->dev)->cnf.ioam6_enabled without validating the returned
idev pointer. Because addrconf_ifdown() can concurrently clear dev->ip6_ptr
via RCU, __in6_dev_get() can return NULL during interface teardown, which
could cause a NULL pointer dereference when processing an IOAM Hop-by-Hop
option.
Let's add a check and use SKB_DROP_REASON_IPV6DISABLED accordingly.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09cbfd4b81ae90963dadb1de99b63b702e73290a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dca7e491f070ac49b3d934f16ee953a53b37f38
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/902daac307eb7e1955ce05b071950f3cba88c963
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abdd03229414b5a52943b65a60f34b84cea5ac59
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7e8971abd70e9d022f1c251ba2508f8dc7f2db8