# 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-2026-80838"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:54:48.371Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:44:30.457Z"
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-2026-80838"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80838.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80838"
title: "vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush\n\nA non-nexthop FDB entry is expected to have at least one remote while it\nremains reachable through the FDB hash table. A filtered bulk flush\nviolates this invariant when every remote matches: It unlinks the last\nremote in vxlan_fdb_dst_destroy() and only afterwards tells vxlan_flush()\nto destroy the parent FDB entry.\n\nAn RCU reader can find the parent during this interval.\nfirst_remote_rcu() then applies list_entry_rcu() to the empty list head,\nproducing an invalid remote pointer that the receive learning path can\nread from and write to.\n\nWhen a matching remote is the sole remaining remote, leave it linked and\nask the caller to destroy the entire FDB entry. vxlan_fdb_destroy() keeps\nthe remote attached while sending the deletion notification and removing\nthe parent from the lookup structures."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a7c2f00843225d5f037676bca649321f3d024c7"},{"version":"c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8820c8a7718327e96849782033e7c85a0f6bcfe"},{"version":"c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ba68fd6cdd1e3c92b92f25c7e48bf7bd51a183c"},{"version":"c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bbc76ee1b21d3bd045d6d819b2bacd30a6372ab"},{"version":"c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5d4a7b538b52db63927773a8905fcd9f78a42e2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.12.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.49","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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