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    "id": "CVE-2026-99072",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99072",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-23T12:23:15.735Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-23T12:23:15.735Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z",
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      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "ipv4: stop route notification sizing when nexthop group shrinks",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: stop route notification sizing when nexthop group shrinks\n\nCommit 680aea08e78c (\"net: ipv4: Emit notification when fib\nhardware flags are changed\") added an RCU-only fib_nlmsg_size() call\nfor asynchronous hardware flag notifications.\n\nfib_nlmsg_size() checks fib_info_num_path() before each iteration,\nthen fib_info_nhc() independently reloads nh->nh_grp. If\nRTM_NEWNEXTHOP replaces a group with fewer paths between those loads,\nfib_info_nhc() returns NULL and fib_nexthop_nlmsg_size() dereferences\nit.\n\nStop sizing when the indexed path is absent. Nexthop groups are\ndense, so the current snapshot has no later path.",
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