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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64545" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-27T20:10:36.659Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:39.877Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64545" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64545.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64545" title: "net, bpf: check master for NULL in xdp_master_redirect()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet, bpf: check master for NULL in xdp_master_redirect()\n\nxdp_master_redirect() dereferences the result of\nnetdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu() without a NULL check, but that helper\nreturns NULL when the receiving device has no upper-master adjacency.\n\nThe reach guard only checks netif_is_bond_slave(). On bond slave release\nbond_upper_dev_unlink() drops the upper-master adjacency before clearing\nIFF_SLAVE, so an XDP_TX reaching xdp_master_redirect() in that window\nstill passes netif_is_bond_slave() while master is already NULL, and\nfaults on master-\u003eflags at offset 0xb0:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000b0\n RIP: 0010:xdp_master_redirect (net/core/filter.c:4432)\n Call Trace:\n xdp_master_redirect (net/core/filter.c:4432)\n bpf_prog_run_generic_xdp (include/net/xdp.h:700)\n do_xdp_generic (net/core/dev.c:5608)\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6204)\n process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6319)\n __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7729)\n net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7792)\n handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)\n __dev_queue_xmit (include/linux/bottom_half.h:33)\n packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3082)\n __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2252)\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nThe missing check dates back to the original code; commit 1921f91298d1\n(\"net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master\")\nlater added the master-\u003eflags read where the fault now lands but kept the\nunconditional deref. Check master for NULL before use; a NULL master is\ntreated the same as one that is not up." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c99ca049e910d61ddbd28cc2c47242f2bfbb4970"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2a56441233131fe18a76001de347ecda217e40c"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3876318ea54e83eb70982b8280a3c5e4e32269bf"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4edbcacca09f92b85d3951b6add11894b20a84bc"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03b743586a2469744e96e9c1015096d07240935d"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89c103d702b25ceb2d097faf854deb47b53b17ff"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e82d8cc4321c373dc46e741cd2dfdaa7921fddb7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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