CVE-2026-43099

ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe()

HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.50 % · percentile 43 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe() ipv6_stub->ipv6_dev_find() may return ERR_PTR(-EAFNOSUPPORT) when the IPv6 stack is not active (CONFIG_IPV6=m and not loaded), and passing this error pointer to dev_hold() will cause a kernel crash with null-ptr-deref. Instead, silently discard the request. RFC 8335 does not appear to define a specific response for the case where an IPv6 interface identifier is syntactically valid but the implementation cannot perform the lookup at runtime, and silently dropping the request may safer than misreporting "No Such Interface".

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected d329ea5bd8845f0b196bf41b18b6173340d6e0e4 < 0f21bc261e60f0c696c58841c4873ff77ed83673 ; affected d329ea5bd8845f0b196bf41b18b6173340d6e0e4 < dc5db4db19766a61ad65d81d1f55b1c1e51ba78d ; affected d329ea5bd8845f0b196bf41b18b6173340d6e0e4 < 47a8bf52156ac7e7a581eca31c1f964ba4258d4d ; affected d329ea5bd8845f0b196bf41b18b6173340d6e0e4 < 6be325206850a0891896d38bcf83a09d8b54ec48 ; affected d329ea5bd8845f0b196bf41b18b6173340d6e0e4 < f91b3ed9e7fa82a70511b5f6901c88379acf2964 ; affected d329ea5bd8845f0b196bf41b18b6173340d6e0e4 < 5b9911582d441f72fe6ccb15ffe3303bbc07f6f5
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.13 ; unaffected 0 < 5.13 ; unaffected 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.136 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.83 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD