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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-74581

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/21/2026 1:16:44 PM

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Added Description

                  
                
              
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ipv6: clear suppressed fib6 rule result

fib6_rule_suppress() drops a suppressed route with ip6_rt_put_flags(),
but leaves res->rt6 pointing at the released rt6_info.

If no later rule supplies a replacement, fib6_rule_lookup() still sees
res.rt6 and returns that stale dst to its caller. A suppressing rule can
therefore leak a released route back to rt6_lookup(), and the next put
hits rcuref_put_slowpath() from dst_release().

Clear res->rt6 when suppressing the route so suppressed lookups fall
through to the null dst instead of reusing the released one.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/354db6243eca59e9d187ffbf8b7955b044ce84dc
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d29b286c9de0b309e94b9ed083aa1a2f429434f
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aea62e433fe1b586202a5fee8b5807ce635e1d7
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d98c70fe0ba8c7708bfd5b2a5174d2086775daa
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90c57310e266eb94e4a80d6b15a9ca131d2e82cb
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bad152c42b37499162367fe47867411e62fffa3
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a341c091ca0bfae377747b1b59a3bd8ebe18a937
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc3ab04220667f254f4348572b2a0b3febff89fb
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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