# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98101"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:35:52.731Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:13:53.770Z"
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-2026-98101"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98101.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98101"
title: "ipv6: mcast: use copy-on-write RCU updates in ip6_mc_source()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: mcast: use copy-on-write RCU updates in ip6_mc_source()\n\npmc-\u003esflist is read locklessly under rcu_read_lock() by\ninet6_mc_check() during packet reception in the UDP and RAW\nmulticast receive paths.\n\nip6_mc_source() mutated psl-\u003esl_addr and psl-\u003esl_count in-place\nwhen adding or removing a source filter. Additionally, when expanding\nthe filter buffer, newpsl was published via rcu_assign_pointer()\nbefore writing the new source into the array.\n\nBecause 16-byte struct in6_addr writes are not atomic and array\nshifting is not synchronized with RCU readers, concurrent readers in\ninet6_mc_check() could read torn IPv6 addresses or observe\nduplicated/missed source entries.\n\nFix this by switching ip6_mc_source() to copy-on-write RCU updates:\nallocate and fully populate newpsl before publishing it via\nrcu_assign_pointer(), and reclaim the old filter via kfree_rcu(),\nmatching ip6_mc_msfilter().\n\nAlso remove the now unused IP6_SFBLOCK macro."
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