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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23124" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-02-14T15:09:54.043Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:32.245Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23124" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23124.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23124" title: "ipv6: annotate data-race in ndisc_router_discovery()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: annotate data-race in ndisc_router_discovery()\n\nsyzbot found that ndisc_router_discovery() could read and write\nin6_dev-\u003era_mtu without holding a lock [1]\n\nThis looks fine, IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU is best effort.\n\nAdd READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() to document the race.\n\nNote that we might also reject illegal MTU values\n(mtu \u003c IPV6_MIN_MTU || mtu \u003e skb-\u003edev-\u003emtu) in a future patch.\n\n[1]\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in ndisc_router_discovery / ndisc_router_discovery\n\nread to 0xffff888119809c20 of 4 bytes by task 25817 on cpu 1:\n ndisc_router_discovery+0x151d/0x1c90 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:1558\n ndisc_rcv+0x2ad/0x3d0 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:1841\n icmpv6_rcv+0xe5a/0x12f0 net/ipv6/icmp.c:989\n ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xb2a/0x10d0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:438\n ip6_input_finish+0xf0/0x1d0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:489\n NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]\n ip6_input+0x5e/0x140 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:500\n ip6_mc_input+0x27c/0x470 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:590\n dst_input include/net/dst.h:474 [inline]\n ip6_rcv_finish+0x336/0x340 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:79\n...\n\nwrite to 0xffff888119809c20 of 4 bytes by task 25816 on cpu 0:\n ndisc_router_discovery+0x155a/0x1c90 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:1559\n ndisc_rcv+0x2ad/0x3d0 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:1841\n icmpv6_rcv+0xe5a/0x12f0 net/ipv6/icmp.c:989\n ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xb2a/0x10d0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:438\n ip6_input_finish+0xf0/0x1d0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:489\n NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]\n ip6_input+0x5e/0x140 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:500\n ip6_mc_input+0x27c/0x470 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:590\n dst_input include/net/dst.h:474 [inline]\n ip6_rcv_finish+0x336/0x340 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:79\n...\n\nvalue changed: 0x00000000 -\u003e 0xe5400659" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"49b99da2c9ce13ffcd93fe3a0f5670791c1d76f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4630897eb1a039b5d7b737b8dc9521d9d4b568b5"},{"version":"49b99da2c9ce13ffcd93fe3a0f5670791c1d76f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2619499169fb1c2ac4974b0f2d87767fb543582b"},{"version":"49b99da2c9ce13ffcd93fe3a0f5670791c1d76f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fad8f4ff7928f4d52a062ffdcffa484989c79c47"},{"version":"49b99da2c9ce13ffcd93fe3a0f5670791c1d76f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a2b9d25f801afecf2f83cacce98afa8fd73e3c9"},{"version":"49b99da2c9ce13ffcd93fe3a0f5670791c1d76f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3c1040252e598f7b4e33a42dc7c38519bc22428"},{"version":"49b99da2c9ce13ffcd93fe3a0f5670791c1d76f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a063f96d87efc3a6cc667f8de096a3d38d74bb5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.199","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.122","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.68","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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