Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-89564

Linux Linux

ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb->sk association installed by bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under RCU. Both address families can also prefetch a socket in UDP early demux. In both paths (BPF and UDP early demux) a reference is not guaranteed to be held on the socket. When a multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the receive-side RCU section ends. After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb->sk. Orphan the skb before each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding with a socket-free clone.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 5.7 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 ≤ v < 882212d317a7c16ab70d20656f6b1c42abada9f6 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 ≤ v < e62aef7d6a5b27569bf540bbe11a9482117ff588 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 ≤ v < 592b91f41d4f35e37c9e0be1c46a4c28437642cd CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 ≤ v < f1281d4b99089fbaf0d3579bba62a814ebb4de4d CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 ≤ v < e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10d CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 ≤ v < a8af6fbac895f057c4b8ff8a2e3fb4c5827fe4ce CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-09-11
Last updated
2026-10-30
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.13%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
3.2%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

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