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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23381" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:28:00.416Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:14:36.427Z" 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-2026-23381" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23381.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23381" title: "net: bridge: fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: bridge: 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. Then, if neigh_suppress is enabled and an ICMPv6\nNeighbor Discovery packet reaches the bridge, br_do_suppress_nd() will\ndereference ipv6_stub-\u003end_tbl which is NULL, passing it to\nneigh_lookup(). This causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference.\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000268\n Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:neigh_lookup+0x16/0xe0\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n ? neigh_lookup+0x16/0xe0\n br_do_suppress_nd+0x160/0x290 [bridge]\n br_handle_frame_finish+0x500/0x620 [bridge]\n br_handle_frame+0x353/0x440 [bridge]\n __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x298/0x1110\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x3d/0xa0\n process_backlog+0xa0/0x140\n __napi_poll+0x2c/0x170\n net_rx_action+0x2c4/0x3a0\n handle_softirqs+0xd0/0x270\n do_softirq+0x3f/0x60\n\nFix this by replacing IS_ENABLED(IPV6) call with ipv6_mod_enabled() in\nthe callers. This is in essence disabling NS/NA suppression when IPv6 is\ndisabled." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ed842faeb2bd49256f00485402f3113205f91d30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9d712ccfeef737c0e700a4b5b98f310e07b6b60"},{"version":"ed842faeb2bd49256f00485402f3113205f91d30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5c56e65b685360dd3f2278aeff8c21061feb665"},{"version":"ed842faeb2bd49256f00485402f3113205f91d30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a894eb5de246d79f13105c55a67381039a24d44"},{"version":"ed842faeb2bd49256f00485402f3113205f91d30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a12cdaa3375f0bd3c8f4e564be7c143529abfe5b"},{"version":"ed842faeb2bd49256f00485402f3113205f91d30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa73deb3b6b730ec280d45b3f423bfa9e17bc122"},{"version":"ed842faeb2bd49256f00485402f3113205f91d30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33dec6f10777d5a8f71c0a200f690da5ae3c2e55"},{"version":"ed842faeb2bd49256f00485402f3113205f91d30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20ef5c25422f97dd09d751e5ae6c18406cdc78e6"},{"version":"ed842faeb2bd49256f00485402f3113205f91d30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5e890630533bdc15b26a34bb8e7ef539bdf1322"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"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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