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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74398" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:10.113Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:41.331Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74398" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74398.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74398" title: "ipv6: addrconf: bail out of dad_failure when state is no longer POSTDAD" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: addrconf: bail out of dad_failure when state is no longer POSTDAD\n\naddrconf_dad_failure() transitions ifp-\u003estate from DAD to POSTDAD\nvia addrconf_dad_end(), which drops ifp-\u003elock on return. The lock\nis re-acquired after net_info_ratelimited(). A concurrent\nipv6_del_addr() can take the lock in that window, set ifp-\u003estate\nto DEAD and run list_del_rcu(&ifp-\u003eif_list).\n\naddrconf_dad_failure() then overwrites DEAD with ERRDAD at errdad:\nand schedules a new dad_work. The work calls ipv6_del_addr()\nagain, hitting the already-poisoned list entry:\n\n general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 4 PID: 217 Comm: kworker/4:1\n Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work\n RIP: 0010:ipv6_del_addr+0xe9/0x280\n RAX: dead000000000122\n Call Trace:\n addrconf_dad_stop+0x113/0x140\n addrconf_dad_work+0x28c/0x430\n process_one_work+0x1eb/0x3b0\n worker_thread+0x4d/0x400\n kthread+0x104/0x140\n ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40\n\nFold the addrconf_dad_end() logic into addrconf_dad_failure() under\na single ifp-\u003elock critical section. The STABLE_PRIVACY branch\ntemporarily drops ifp-\u003elock around address regeneration, so at\nlock_errdad: verify the state is still POSTDAD before transitioning\nto ERRDAD; bail out otherwise to avoid overwriting a state set by\nanother path while the lock was released." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47b05836705b63dab93d9ac7c69a3a507375ef80"},{"version":"c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d21be7d051012c6b572fa4e3334443c250216f7b"},{"version":"c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"875c284c0f98b042bb97abad460f63a24c977f88"},{"version":"c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ed0ce9ea58d677d1bac92614ee5f60f8ea57363"},{"version":"c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bdc86d89fd6c6523753fa6f42fcfaf30ee699cb"},{"version":"c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b61af0268e3d1308c466bf0be5dced844eafc1ef"},{"version":"c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e889aa99ad3ed48bb0ddcff6475b17542532d18b"},{"version":"c15b1ccadb323ea50023e8f1cca2954129a62b51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"627ac78f2741e2ebd2225e2e953b6964a8a9182f"},{"version":"835b474b8f70fa68d68abffad37378e92f661802","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.10.105","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.14"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"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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