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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97940"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:52.936Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:11:06.854Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97940"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97940.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97940"
title: "ipv6: fix fib6 walker UAF on seq stop"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: fix fib6 walker UAF on seq stop\n\nipv6_route_iter_active() treats a walker in FWS_U at the table root as\nalready unlinked. fib6_del_route() can move a still-linked walker into\nthat same state when the current leaf is the last route at the root,\nso ipv6_route_native_seq_stop() skips fib6_walker_unlink(). The seq\nprivate object can then be freed while it remains on\nnet-\u003eipv6.fib6_walkers. A later route deletion walks the dangling list\nand uses the freed walker.\n\nUse the list head as membership state and reinitialize it when\nunlinking. Keep the existing w-\u003enode check so a never-started iterator\nwith a zeroed private object is not treated as linked.\n\nThe same stop helper is used by /proc/net/ipv6_route and by the BPF\nipv6_route iterator. The BPF show path only widens the race."
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