# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-99074"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:23:17.866Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:23:17.866Z"
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-2026-99074"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99074.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99074"
title: "ipv4: stop PMTU walk when nexthop group shrinks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: stop PMTU walk when nexthop group shrinks\n\nCommit 7d3f3b4367f3 (\"net: ipv4: Cache pmtu for all packet paths if\nmultipath enabled\") made __ip_rt_update_pmtu() update every path.\n\nFor nexthop objects, fib_info_num_path() and fib_info_nhc()\nindependently load nh-\u003enh_grp.  RCU protects each group's lifetime but\ndoes not make the loads observe the same group.  If replacement shrinks\nthe group after the loop accepts an index, fib_info_nhc() returns NULL\nand update_or_create_fnhe() dereferences it.\n\nA deterministic probe only widened the existing window between the real\noperations.  On v7.2, an RTM_NEWNEXTHOP replacement published a\none-member group after the PMTU reader accepted index 1 from a two-member\ngroup, producing:\n\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n  RIP: update_or_create_fnhe+0x45/0x15b0\n\nStop when the indexed path is absent.  Groups are dense, so no later\nindex exists in that snapshot.  The same real-writer window completed\n114,423 PMTU iterations without an oops with this check.  A reproducer\nis available on request.\n\nReplacement requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the network namespace.  Where\nunprivileged user namespaces are permitted, a local user can obtain it\nin a new user and network namespace."
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