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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2026-53214",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53214",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T08:39:18.209Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-25T08:39:18.209Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "ipv6: Fix a potential NPD in cleanup_prefix_route()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: Fix a potential NPD in cleanup_prefix_route()\n\naddrconf_get_prefix_route() can return the fib6_null_entry sentinel\nentry which has a NULL fib6_table pointer. Therefore, before setting the\nroute's expiration time, check that we are not working with this entry,\nas otherwise a NPD will be triggered [1].\n\nNote that the other callers of addrconf_get_prefix_route() are not\nsusceptible to this bug:\n\n1. addrconf_prefix_rcv(): Requests a route with the 'RTF_ADDRCONF |\n   RTF_PREFIX_RT' flags which are not set on fib6_null_entry.\n\n2. modify_prefix_route(): Fixed by commit a747e02430df (\"ipv6: avoid\n   possible NULL deref in modify_prefix_route()\").\n\n3. __ipv6_ifa_notify(): Calls ip6_del_rt() which specifically checks for\n   fib6_null_entry and returns an error.\n\n[1]\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037]\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\n__kasan_check_byte (mm/kasan/common.c:573)\nlock_acquire.part.0 (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842 (discriminator 1))\n_raw_spin_lock_bh (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:182 (discriminator 1))\ncleanup_prefix_route (net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1280)\nipv6_del_addr (net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1342)\ninet6_addr_del.isra.0 (net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3119)\ninet6_rtm_deladdr (net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4812)\nrtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6997)\nnetlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2555)\nnetlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344)\nnetlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1899)\n__sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:802 (discriminator 4))\n____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2698)\n___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2752)\n__sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2784)\ndo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)",
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              "version": "6.18.36",
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              "version": "7.0.13",
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