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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98968" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:39.236Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:39.236Z" 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-2026-98968" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98968.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98968" title: "amt: send the relay's General Query directly from the receive path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\namt: send the relay's General Query directly from the receive path\n\nAn skb queued in a qdisc can outlive the tunnel it references\nthrough a raw pointer in skb-\u003ecb. For example, with igmp_qrv set\nto 1 on the relay a tunnel lives for 135s, so a netem delay of\n180s on the amt device outlives it; when the tunnel expires and is\nfreed, the subsequent dequeue triggers a use-after-free in\namt_dev_xmit().\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in amt_dev_xmit+0x2763/0x2e20\n Call Trace:\n amt_dev_xmit+0x2763/0x2e20 [drivers/net/amt.c:1262]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x22f/0x620\n sch_direct_xmit+0x12e/0xac0\n netem_dequeue+0x333/0xc50\n net_tx_action+0x35c/0xa60\n\namt_send_igmp_gq() and amt_send_mld_gq() are only called from\namt_request_handler(), inside the rcu_read_lock_bh() section of\namt_rcv(). amt_request_handler() already has the tunnel the query is\nfor: it found or created it inside that section. Queuing the query with\ndev_queue_xmit() only leads back into amt_dev_xmit(), which strips the\nEthernet header and calls amt_send_membership_query() for that tunnel.\n\nMake that call directly from the two senders instead, the same way\namt_send_advertisement() transmits from the receive path. The query\nnever waits in a qdisc, the tunnel is only dereferenced inside the\nRCU section that found or created it, and nothing is stored in\nskb-\u003ecb, so no lookup or refcount is needed. Remove the query branch\nof amt_dev_xmit(), amt_skb_cb() and struct amt_skb_cb, which have no\nusers left.\n\nBehaviour changes:\n - The relay's own General Queries no longer pass through the amt\n device's egress path: its qdisc, tc egress (clsact/tcx), the\n netfilter egress hook and packet taps. They are still visible as\n UDP on the underlay.\n - A query that is sent successfully is no longer counted as\n tx_dropped. The old query branch left through the unlock label,\n which counted every sent query as dropped.\n - A query that reaches amt_dev_xmit() on a relay from elsewhere,\n such as a userspace querier, is now dropped at the IGMP/MLD type\n switch. Before, it trusted whatever skb-\u003ecb held, and a NULL\n tunnel hit the WARN_ON(1)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95114e421196250e3d9662f12df442799477d3c3"},{"version":"cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7183b7d518ce8b3e1f7284f9881d7a87569df14"},{"version":"cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"181cb48c1e9af6b402567e132f879f89d1c54131"},{"version":"cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7ea63b4195a150604993044ab574d8240f2a399"},{"version":"cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"afae89de73dd693cfa329580ba0fba63bd3f0a11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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