# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64576"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-05T08:09:32.529Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:42.772Z"
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-2026-64576"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64576.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64576"
title: "nexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate()\n\nnh_res_bucket_migrate() passes an uninitialized netlink_ext_ack to\ncall_nexthop_res_bucket_notifiers(). When\nnh_notifier_res_bucket_info_init() fails (e.g. the kzalloc returns\n-ENOMEM), the error is propagated back before any notifier sets\nextack._msg, and the error path formats the stale pointer with\npr_err_ratelimited(\"%s\\n\", extack._msg). With CONFIG_INIT_STACK_NONE\nthis dereferences uninitialized stack memory:\n\n  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...\n  KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [...]\n  RIP: 0010:string (lib/vsprintf.c:730)\n   vsnprintf (lib/vsprintf.c:2945)\n   _printk (kernel/printk/printk.c:2504)\n   nh_res_bucket_migrate (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:1816)\n   nh_res_table_upkeep (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:1866)\n   rtm_new_nexthop (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3323)\n   rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076)\n   netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900)\n  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nZero-initialize extack so _msg is NULL on error paths that never set it."
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