# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45846"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T09:24:52.122Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:46:30.495Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-45846"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45846.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45846"
title: "bareudp: fix NULL pointer dereference in bareudp_fill_metadata_dst()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbareudp: fix NULL pointer dereference in bareudp_fill_metadata_dst()\n\nbareudp_fill_metadata_dst() passes bareudp-\u003esock to\nudp_tunnel6_dst_lookup() in the IPv6 path without a NULL check.\nThe socket is only created in bareudp_open() and NULLed in\nbareudp_stop(), so calling this function while the device is down\ntriggers a NULL dereference via sock-\u003esk.\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\n RIP: 0010:udp_tunnel6_dst_lookup (net/ipv6/ip6_udp_tunnel.c:160)\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  bareudp_fill_metadata_dst (drivers/net/bareudp.c:532)\n  do_execute_actions (net/openvswitch/actions.c:901)\n  ovs_execute_actions (net/openvswitch/actions.c:1589)\n  ovs_packet_cmd_execute (net/openvswitch/datapath.c:700)\n  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114)\n  genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209)\n  netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550)\n  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAdd a NULL check returning -ESHUTDOWN, consistent with the xmit paths\nin the same driver."
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