# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23304"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:26:59.015Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:13:54.349Z"
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-2026-23304"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23304.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23304"
title: "ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()\n\nl3mdev_master_dev_rcu() can return NULL when the slave device is being\nun-slaved from a VRF. All other callers deal with this, but we lost\nthe fallback to loopback in ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() -\u003e ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()\nwith commit 4832c30d5458 (\"net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on\ndevice with address\").\n\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f]\n  RIP: 0010:ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc (net/ipv6/route.c:1418)\n  Call Trace:\n   ip6_pol_route (net/ipv6/route.c:2318)\n   fib6_rule_lookup (net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:115)\n   ip6_route_output_flags (net/ipv6/route.c:2607)\n   vrf_process_v6_outbound (drivers/net/vrf.c:437)\n\nI was tempted to rework the un-slaving code to clear the flag first\nand insert synchronize_rcu() before we remove the upper. But looks like\nthe explicit fallback to loopback_dev is an established pattern.\nAnd I guess avoiding the synchronize_rcu() is nice, too."
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