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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23439" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:15:23.734Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:15:01.223Z" 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-2026-23439" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23439.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23439" title: "udp_tunnel: fix NULL deref caused by udp_sock_create6 when CONFIG_IPV6=n" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nudp_tunnel: fix NULL deref caused by udp_sock_create6 when CONFIG_IPV6=n\n\nWhen CONFIG_IPV6 is disabled, the udp_sock_create6() function returns 0\n(success) without actually creating a socket. Callers such as\nfou_create() then proceed to dereference the uninitialized socket\npointer, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nThe captured NULL deref crash:\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\n RIP: 0010:fou_nl_add_doit (net/ipv4/fou_core.c:590 net/ipv4/fou_core.c:764)\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.constprop.0 (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114)\n genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209)\n [...]\n netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550)\n genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219)\n netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344)\n netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894)\n __sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:727 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:742 (discriminator 1))\n __sys_sendto (./include/linux/file.h:62 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/file.h:83 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2183 (discriminator 1))\n __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2213 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2209 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2209 (discriminator 1))\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (net/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\n\nThis patch makes udp_sock_create6 return -EPFNOSUPPORT instead, so\ncallers correctly take their error paths. There is only one caller of\nthe vulnerable function and only privileged users can trigger it." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fd384412e199b62c3ddaabd18dce86d0e164c5b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dfc96ae0074cc47b5478a59e5aa19233e434243f"},{"version":"fd384412e199b62c3ddaabd18dce86d0e164c5b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66117dbb3dbae82f86735bf727b1d59cc677afa1"},{"version":"fd384412e199b62c3ddaabd18dce86d0e164c5b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba7c9ddcdd077942b798979edb035207374d4096"},{"version":"fd384412e199b62c3ddaabd18dce86d0e164c5b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a05a2149386f6dfb4245f522acdbef892acafc84"},{"version":"fd384412e199b62c3ddaabd18dce86d0e164c5b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f036aa0fe46c19e938f03d10e02c23f4fffae5e"},{"version":"fd384412e199b62c3ddaabd18dce86d0e164c5b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"003343985f26dfefd0c94b1fe1316a2de74428b9"},{"version":"fd384412e199b62c3ddaabd18dce86d0e164c5b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12aa4b73a67d95bc739995a2d6943aec2f9785c9"},{"version":"fd384412e199b62c3ddaabd18dce86d0e164c5b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3a6df291fecf5f8a308953b65ca72b7fc9e015d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.18"},{"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":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.10","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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