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CVE-2026-74657 (GCVE-0-2026-74657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:32 – Updated: 2026-08-27 12:39
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Title
ipv4: Fix fib_nlmsg_size() for RTA_VIA nexthops
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: Fix fib_nlmsg_size() for RTA_VIA nexthops fib_nlmsg_size() still estimates nexthop space as if every gateway is encoded as an IPv4 RTA_GATEWAY attribute. IPv4 routes can also carry an IPv6 gateway, which fib_nexthop_info() dumps as RTA_VIA. As a result, route notifications can allocate an skb that is too small. fib_dump_info() then fails with -EMSGSIZE and rtmsg_fib() hits the WARN_ON() that marks such failures as a fib_nlmsg_size() bug. With panic_on_warn set, this becomes a kernel panic. Mirror the actual nexthop dump layout in fib_nlmsg_size(): account for IPv6 nexthop gateways dumped as RTA_VIA, for the no-header rtnexthop layout used inside RTA_MULTIPATH, and for RTA_FLOW only when it is actually present.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 , < 57195f0ab5cfbb5ee0864e5aff15ceb48f5a5e28 (git)
Affected: d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 , < 0f0ca602941d0a81ae9514943ca06c55159c6385 (git)
Affected: d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 , < 5307a53599fa762c06e475ee4a375252074fd324 (git)
Affected: d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 , < 7f80ad373ce4a7af5367ff273cea0f16e91387f3 (git)
Affected: d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 , < 4a5dfbae5179f6574695012a980476254df2d295 (git)
Affected: d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 , < a59edda6eda1252340354322d8ab318b2e9052fb (git)
Affected: d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 , < 9b22f13524fa0de0d963bbd3002df6c28bae3395 (git)
Affected: d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 , < 4ff9548d84945d2cbf9e4c207288063a200ea397 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.267 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.152 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.104 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.45 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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