# 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-2026-80792"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:13:04.537Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:43:45.535Z"
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-2026-80792"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80792.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80792"
title: "ipv6: fix use-after-free in ip6_finish_output2()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: fix use-after-free in ip6_finish_output2()\n\nip6_finish_output2() caches a pointer to the IPv6 destination\naddress (daddr) before invoking lwtunnel_xmit().  The LWT-BPF\ntransmit path or other encapsulation operations within\nlwtunnel_xmit() can reallocate the skb head, freeing the memory\nthat daddr points to.  When lwtunnel_xmit() returns\nLWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE, the function continues to use the stale\ndaddr pointer to compute the nexthop and to look up or create the\nneighbour entry.  This results in a use-after-free read, which can\nleak sensitive kernel data, pollute the neighbour table with\narbitrary values, misdirect traffic, or crash the system.\n\nFix this by re-fetching the IPv6 header and the destination\naddress pointer after lwtunnel_xmit() returns\nLWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE, ensuring that the subsequent nexthop\ncomputation and neighbour lookup operate on valid memory."
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