CVE-2026-98099 (GCVE-0-2026-98099)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-25 10:24
Modified
2026-10-21 12:54
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu_assign_pointer() for __rcu list updates Several places in net/ipv6/mcast.c update RCU-protected lists (np->ipv6_mc_list, idev->mc_list, idev->mc_tomb) using direct pointer assignments instead of rcu_assign_pointer(): 1. In __ipv6_dev_mc_dec(), unlinking a group from idev->mc_list did: *map = ma->next; without rcu_assign_pointer() while concurrent readers traverse idev->mc_list locklessly under rcu_read_lock(). 2. In ipv6_sock_mc_drop() and __ipv6_sock_mc_close(), unlinking a group from np->ipv6_mc_list directly assigned *lnk = mc_lst->next and np->ipv6_mc_list = mc_lst->next without rcu_assign_pointer(), racing with lockless readers in inet6_mc_check(). 3. In __ipv6_sock_mc_join(), mc_lst->next was initialized to np->ipv6_mc_list via raw assignment before publishing mc_lst. 4. In mld_del_delrec() and __ipv6_dev_mc_inc(), __rcu source pointers passed into rcu_assign_pointer() lacked explicit dereference helpers. Fix these by consistently using rcu_assign_pointer() along with mc_dereference() / sock_dereference().
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Linux Linux Version: 456b61bca8ee324ab6c18b065e632c9a8c88aa39
Version: 456b61bca8ee324ab6c18b065e632c9a8c88aa39
Version: 456b61bca8ee324ab6c18b065e632c9a8c88aa39
Version: 456b61bca8ee324ab6c18b065e632c9a8c88aa39
Version: 456b61bca8ee324ab6c18b065e632c9a8c88aa39
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