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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23293" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:26:51.160Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:13:47.078Z" 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-2026-23293" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23293.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23293" title: "net: vxlan: fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: vxlan: fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled\n\nWhen booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, the nd_tbl is never\ninitialized because inet6_init() exits before ndisc_init() is called\nwhich initializes it. If an IPv6 packet is injected into the interface,\nroute_shortcircuit() is called and a NULL pointer dereference happens on\nneigh_lookup().\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000380\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:neigh_lookup+0x20/0x270\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n vxlan_xmit+0x638/0x1ef0 [vxlan]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9e/0x2e0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0xbee/0x14e0\n packet_sendmsg+0x116f/0x1930\n __sys_sendto+0x1f5/0x200\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x12f/0x1590\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nFix this by adding an early check on route_shortcircuit() when protocol\nis ETH_P_IPV6. Note that ipv6_mod_enabled() cannot be used here because\nVXLAN can be built-in even when IPv6 is built as a module." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e15a00aafa4b7953ad717d3cb1ad7acf4ff76945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"649e2bb74da54c96cf20729001e283626a2fefa0"},{"version":"e15a00aafa4b7953ad717d3cb1ad7acf4ff76945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc3e62cf3bbf66280a907ec379f373d0c3b8b2bc"},{"version":"e15a00aafa4b7953ad717d3cb1ad7acf4ff76945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5190fcd75a1f1785c766a8d1e44d3938e168f45"},{"version":"e15a00aafa4b7953ad717d3cb1ad7acf4ff76945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f93e6b4d12bd3a4517a6d447ea675f448f21434"},{"version":"e15a00aafa4b7953ad717d3cb1ad7acf4ff76945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0373e9317bc904e7bdb123d3106fe4f3cea2fb7"},{"version":"e15a00aafa4b7953ad717d3cb1ad7acf4ff76945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbbd2118982c55fb9b0a753ae0cf7194e77149fb"},{"version":"e15a00aafa4b7953ad717d3cb1ad7acf4ff76945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"abcd48ecdeb2e12eccb8339a35534c757782afcd"},{"version":"e15a00aafa4b7953ad717d3cb1ad7acf4ff76945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"168ff39e4758897d2eee4756977d036d52884c7e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.77","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","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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