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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98379" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-09T07:34:19.425Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:30.044Z" 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-2026-98379" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98379.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98379" title: "netfilter: ip6t_rpfilter: reject routes without inet6_dev" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ip6t_rpfilter: reject routes without inet6_dev\n\nip6_route_lookup() can return an error-free route whose rt6i_idev is\nNULL. Lowering an external nexthop device's MTU below IPV6_MIN_MTU tears\ndown its inet6_dev while fib6_ifdown() leaves routes using nexthop objects\nin the FIB. An unprivileged user can construct this state with rtnetlink\nin a private user and network namespace, then trigger a NULL dereference\nthrough an IPv6 rpfilter lookup:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n 0xdffffc0000000000\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n RIP: rpfilter_mt (net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rpfilter.c:75)\n Call Trace:\n ip6t_do_table (net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:316)\n nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)\n ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351)\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6216)\n process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6680)\n __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7739)\n net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7959)\n handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)\n do_softirq.part.0 (kernel/softirq.c:523)\n __local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:450)\n __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4913)\n packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3139)\n __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2252)\n __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2259)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nReject routes without an inet6_dev immediately after lookup. Such routes\nare not eligible for reverse-path filtering, and the check protects all\nlater rt6i_idev dereferences." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4de78756b0fddbd125b2b1b77c74f2eccc8e977"},{"version":"e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1681ab6dd1271f2f36047490793b78b1848bbcc9"},{"version":"e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65487e9e99431ffcf05024a817f51ee4e3bd9b47"},{"version":"e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f49da48bd679cfee646d6a40dd02b1933de577d1"},{"version":"e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"290c96e5d9471d1ded9ab1e8ffbb04f6ee7b0f40"},{"version":"e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eafe081ea77d25b5c8e601680671b4ecb4520e7d"},{"version":"e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a7384bc2e66217c9a01a392281334f4423740a0"},{"version":"e26f9a480fb6c1b614660e824d69a74e2ce990f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b9b5323725e458906c7620a3bc10398b51ad954"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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