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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74561"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:28:04.525Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T10:09:15.073Z"
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-2026-74561"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74561.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74561"
title: "nexthop: avoid unlocked f6i_list walk in nh_rt_cache_flush"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnexthop: avoid unlocked f6i_list walk in nh_rt_cache_flush\n\nnh_rt_cache_flush() walks nh-\u003ef6i_list during an RTNL-serialized nexthop\nreplace without holding nh-\u003elock, racing the unlocked IPv6 route\nadd/delete that mutate the list under nh-\u003elock and free fib6_info\nentries (nh_rt_cache_flush() is inlined into rtm_new_nexthop()):\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nh_rt_cache_flush (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:2243)\n  Read of size 8 at addr ffff888012953e18 by task exploit/146\n   nh_rt_cache_flush (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:2243)\n   replace_nexthop (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:2610)\n   rtm_new_nexthop (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3323)\n   rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076)\n\nUnlike the other f6i_list walks, this one bumps each route's sernum via\nfib6_update_sernum_upto_root(), which needs tb6_lock; taking nh-\u003elock\naround it would invert the established tb6_lock -\u003e nh-\u003elock order and\ndeadlock. As the only purpose is to invalidate cached dsts, bump the\nIPv6 sernum for the whole netns with rt_genid_bump_ipv6() instead,\nmirroring the rt_cache_flush() already done for IPv4 just above."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"081efd18326e353c6fbfdeff903a83edde953f72","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f97fae992155b11da516a509c855ff9d0868b107"},{"version":"081efd18326e353c6fbfdeff903a83edde953f72","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44f53e4331a30fabc38a411fae7524341b618db3"},{"version":"081efd18326e353c6fbfdeff903a83edde953f72","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4787a6d2629b4e8c0b6bacab1f75c1660eca44d9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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