net: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74550
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.48 % · percentile 41 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails When inet_getpeer_v4() or inet_getpeer_v6() fails to allocate a peer entry under memory pressure or tree size caps, redirect handlers previously fell back to sending un-rate-limited ICMP/NDISC Redirect messages. In IPv4, ip_rt_send_redirect() called icmp_send() directly when peer == NULL. In IPv6, ip6_forward() and ndisc_send_redirect() passed a NULL peer into inet_peer_xrlim_allow(), which returned true when peer == NULL. Because ICMP/NDISC Redirects are not part of the default global rate limit mask (sysctl_icmp_ratemask), sending redirects when peer == NULL creates an un-rate-limited ICMP packet storm. Fix this by failing closed in ip_rt_send_redirect(), ip6_forward(), and ndisc_send_redirect() when peer is NULL.

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 products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 92d8682926342d2b6aa5b2ecc02221e00e1573a0 < c0adf8b4247bcc5a145a25c1929006eb392580bb ; affected 92d8682926342d2b6aa5b2ecc02221e00e1573a0 < f5ecaa7ea7686fa7ecdb6affc9d3a9a42e4524b1 ; affected 92d8682926342d2b6aa5b2ecc02221e00e1573a0 < 21666f7af49a90ef44d474916b8ef4402dfd74f5 ; affected 92d8682926342d2b6aa5b2ecc02221e00e1573a0 < 5ec5f00fc606a6df8434948c4552b3cb1176595d ; affected 92d8682926342d2b6aa5b2ecc02221e00e1573a0 < 828f6670d110ff2bf44c743037b38badc315704c ; affected 92d8682926342d2b6aa5b2ecc02221e00e1573a0 < dbc3791e3b2472e1ccc08947e0f83b443470ff4f
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.39 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.39 ; unaffected 6.1.183 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.151 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.103 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.44 ≤ 6.18.*

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