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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
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"
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-2026-99072"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99072.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99072"
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-\u003enh_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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"680aea08e78c003292415518ad270bc20f9c80b1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72d9d17092bb37b0717f12042a0817d01a1f9e78"},{"version":"680aea08e78c003292415518ad270bc20f9c80b1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad1c9f1b98c92609e9bb2ae8f05916defc3b0a54"},{"version":"680aea08e78c003292415518ad270bc20f9c80b1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1f48d1c2d5e9efd904dbbc2f2b3d41543e55c49"},{"version":"680aea08e78c003292415518ad270bc20f9c80b1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad2b3a68b8a7d5d27de88e05674e4adb1ce46d88"},{"version":"680aea08e78c003292415518ad270bc20f9c80b1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3daa33c7af92e38f2274bbd2576f58bfbaf89e6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"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"}]

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