# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74581"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-21T16:31:54.683Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:58.061Z"
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-2026-74581"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74581.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74581"
title: "net: ipv6: clear suppressed fib6 rule result"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ipv6: clear suppressed fib6 rule result\n\nfib6_rule_suppress() drops a suppressed route with ip6_rt_put_flags(),\nbut leaves res-\u003ert6 pointing at the released rt6_info.\n\nIf no later rule supplies a replacement, fib6_rule_lookup() still sees\nres.rt6 and returns that stale dst to its caller. A suppressing rule can\ntherefore leak a released route back to rt6_lookup(), and the next put\nhits rcuref_put_slowpath() from dst_release().\n\nClear res-\u003ert6 when suppressing the route so suppressed lookups fall\nthrough to the null dst instead of reusing the released one."
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