CVE-2026-80838 (GCVE-0-2026-80838)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-04 15:54
Modified
2026-10-19 08:44
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush A non-nexthop FDB entry is expected to have at least one remote while it remains reachable through the FDB hash table. A filtered bulk flush violates this invariant when every remote matches: It unlinks the last remote in vxlan_fdb_dst_destroy() and only afterwards tells vxlan_flush() to destroy the parent FDB entry. An RCU reader can find the parent during this interval. first_remote_rcu() then applies list_entry_rcu() to the empty list head, producing an invalid remote pointer that the receive learning path can read from and write to. When a matching remote is the sole remaining remote, leave it linked and ask the caller to destroy the entire FDB entry. vxlan_fdb_destroy() keeps the remote attached while sending the deletion notification and removing the parent from the lookup structures.
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Linux Linux Version: c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f
Version: c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f
Version: c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f
Version: c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f
Version: c499fccb71cb85902b5c5b9ce9c9ae6683e54a8f
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