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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98122" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:36:05.369Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:14:14.316Z" 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-2026-98122" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98122.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98122" title: "vxlan: mdb: Fix use-after-free in vxlan_mdb_remote_src_del()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: mdb: Fix use-after-free in vxlan_mdb_remote_src_del()\n\nvxlan_mdb_is_valid_source(), which validates MDBE_ATTR_SOURCE and every\nMDBE_ATTR_SRC_LIST member, accepts the all-zeros address.\n\nA source list is only accepted on a (*, G) entry, whose source is the\nall-zeros address, and for each member of the list an (S, G) entry is\nderived from it by substituting the source. Entries are keyed by a plain\nmemcmp() of struct vxlan_mdb_entry_key, so if MDBE_ATTR_SOURCE is present\nand holds the all-zeros address and the source list holds it as well, the\nderived (S, G) key is byte-identical to the (*, G) key and resolves to the\nsame entry. Omitting MDBE_ATTR_SOURCE is not equivalent, as the key is\nthen left with a zero address family.\n\nvxlan_mdb_remote_src_del() removes the forwarding entry of a source before\nfreeing the source entry:\n\n\tvxlan_mdb_remote_src_fwd_del(vxlan, group, remote, &ent-\u003eaddr);\n\tvxlan_mdb_remote_src_entry_del(ent);\n\nWith the keys aliased, the first call deletes the remote of the entry that\nowns 'ent' instead of a separate (S, G) entry, and frees 'ent'. The second\ncall then runs on the freed entry, and its hlist_del() reads -\u003epprev and\n-\u003enext out of it and writes through them.\n\nAdding the (*, G) entry with NLM_F_REPLACE and no source list marks the\nall-zeros source for deletion and reaches this from the sweep at the end\nof vxlan_mdb_remote_srcs_replace().\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __vxlan_mdb_add+0x1cd/0xd70\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff888102852500 by task poc/84\n __vxlan_mdb_add+0x1cd/0xd70\n vxlan_mdb_add+0xc0/0x140\n rtnl_mdb_add+0x157/0x2a0\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x207/0x5a0\n Allocated by task 84:\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x153/0x360\n vxlan_mdb_remote_srcs_add+0x2eb/0x440\n __vxlan_mdb_add+0x803/0xd70\n Freed by task 84:\n kfree+0x14c/0x3b0\n vxlan_mdb_remote_del+0x129/0x1a0\n __vxlan_mdb_del+0x4f/0xe0\n vxlan_mdb_remote_src_fwd_del.isra.0+0x162/0x1b0\n __vxlan_mdb_add+0x1c5/0xd70\n\nThe MDB operations are netns-scoped, so an unprivileged user can perform\nthem in a new user and network namespace.\n\nReject the all-zeros address in vxlan_mdb_is_valid_source(), which covers\nboth call sites. A (*, G) entry is expressed by omitting the source, so\nnothing legitimate is refused.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee \u003cbaul.lee@xbow.com\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a3a48de5eade770e911d35291217bdd69ce04ef1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"069d5527bb0f229e528fa88c6b72f15060c373f2"},{"version":"a3a48de5eade770e911d35291217bdd69ce04ef1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e12c903fd13c6261b98ca18d8f70ac26e739e2f8"},{"version":"a3a48de5eade770e911d35291217bdd69ce04ef1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74e2a56c82209b0335b53e25f19f9b0590e2483d"},{"version":"a3a48de5eade770e911d35291217bdd69ce04ef1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71203a41d6fa2fa0ea2f3a7541987958bd3694fd"},{"version":"a3a48de5eade770e911d35291217bdd69ce04ef1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4aa61c88b4e292e10abdfd791334b8272108d68a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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