CVE-2026-98379netfilter: ip6t_rpfilter: reject routes without inet6_dev
- —Not scoredno CVSS score yet
- 0.17%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 93% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ip6t_rpfilter: reject routes without inet6_dev ip6_route_lookup() can return an error-free route whose rt6i_idev is NULL. Lowering an external nexthop device's MTU below IPV6_MIN_MTU tears down its inet6_dev while fib6_ifdown() leaves routes using nexthop objects in the FIB. An unprivileged user can construct this state with rtnetlink in a private user and network namespace, then trigger a NULL dereference through an IPv6 rpfilter lookup: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: rpfilter_mt (net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rpfilter.c:75) Call Trace: ip6t_do_table (net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:316) nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619) ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351) __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6216) process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6680) __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7739) net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7959) handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622) do_softirq.part.0 (kernel/softirq.c:523) __local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:450) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4913) packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3139) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2252) __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2259) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121) Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Reject routes without an inet6_dev immediately after lookup. Such routes are not eligible for reverse-path filtering, and the check protects all later rt6i_idev dereferences.
Timeline
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- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
No CVSS score yet: neither the CNA, CISA nor NVD has scored this CVE. NVD status: Received.
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.17% · top 93% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Not scored.
Affected products
- affected e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3 – < f4de78756b0fddbd125b2b1b77c74f2eccc8e977
- affected e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3 – < 1681ab6dd1271f2f36047490793b78b1848bbcc9
- affected e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3 – < 65487e9e99431ffcf05024a817f51ee4e3bd9b47
- affected e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3 – < f49da48bd679cfee646d6a40dd02b1933de577d1
- affected e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3 – < 290c96e5d9471d1ded9ab1e8ffbb04f6ee7b0f40
- affected e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3 – < eafe081ea77d25b5c8e601680671b4ecb4520e7d
- affected e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3 – < 3a7384bc2e66217c9a01a392281334f4423740a0
- affected e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3 – < 1b9b5323725e458906c7620a3bc10398b51ad954
- affected 3.3
- unaffected < 3.3
- unaffected 5.10.271 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.222 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.189 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.158 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.112 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.55 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.2.9 – ≤ 7.2.*
- unaffected 7.3 – ≤ *
References
References8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4de78756b0fddbd125b2b1b77c74f2eccc8e977 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1681ab6dd1271f2f36047490793b78b1848bbcc9 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65487e9e99431ffcf05024a817f51ee4e3bd9b47 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f49da48bd679cfee646d6a40dd02b1933de577d1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/290c96e5d9471d1ded9ab1e8ffbb04f6ee7b0f40 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eafe081ea77d25b5c8e601680671b4ecb4520e7d (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a7384bc2e66217c9a01a392281334f4423740a0 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b9b5323725e458906c7620a3bc10398b51ad954 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-95534 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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