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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53012" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:22.973Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:22:18.192Z" 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-2026-53012" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53012.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53012" title: "nexthop: fix IPv6 route referencing IPv4 nexthop" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnexthop: fix IPv6 route referencing IPv4 nexthop\n\nsyzbot reported a panic [1] [2].\n\nWhen an IPv6 nexthop is replaced with an IPv4 nexthop, the has_v4 flag\nof all groups containing this nexthop is not updated. This is because\nnh_group_v4_update is only called when replacing AF_INET to AF_INET6,\nbut the reverse direction (AF_INET6 to AF_INET) is missed.\n\nThis allows a stale has_v4=false to bypass fib6_check_nexthop, causing\nIPv6 routes to be attached to groups that effectively contain only AF_INET\nmembers. Subsequent route lookups then call nexthop_fib6_nh() which\nreturns NULL for the AF_INET member, leading to a NULL pointer\ndereference.\n\nFix by calling nh_group_v4_update whenever the family changes, not just\nAF_INET to AF_INET6.\n\nReproducer:\n\t# AF_INET6 blackhole\n\tip -6 nexthop add id 1 blackhole\n\t# group with has_v4=false\n\tip nexthop add id 100 group 1\n\t# replace with AF_INET (no -6), has_v4 stays false\n\tip nexthop replace id 1 blackhole\n\t# pass stale has_v4 check\n\tip -6 route add 2001:db8::/64 nhid 100\n\t# panic\n\tping -6 2001:db8::1\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=e17283eb2f8dcf3dd9b47fe6f67a95f71faadad0\n[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=8699b6ae54c9f35837d925686208402949e12ef3" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7bf4796dd09984ad1612877a82d0d139c70ae27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ceffe81a0be92afc0cd1340bc8ca46559cce9bb4"},{"version":"7bf4796dd09984ad1612877a82d0d139c70ae27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c2d6770a5f4545a307eb66979bef7656a34d621"},{"version":"7bf4796dd09984ad1612877a82d0d139c70ae27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6275796f22bb382f3e9aa58ed0b4ef7bdad78cb8"},{"version":"7bf4796dd09984ad1612877a82d0d139c70ae27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aaac3bed034239e1d75732211d9b05f30b0b4f35"},{"version":"7bf4796dd09984ad1612877a82d0d139c70ae27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad85961004fd4bd2f31209ac4b07612c6cefb9e7"},{"version":"7bf4796dd09984ad1612877a82d0d139c70ae27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"613c8f4a501421dd258b07ea614205d4e16ec845"},{"version":"7bf4796dd09984ad1612877a82d0d139c70ae27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3b7e850e1541f0520c4a12ec884255c30427ff6"},{"version":"7bf4796dd09984ad1612877a82d0d139c70ae27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29c95185ba32b621fbc3800fb86e7dc3edf5c2be"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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