ipv6: mcast: use copy-on-write RCU updates in ip6_mc_source() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98101
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Undergoing Analysis

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use copy-on-write RCU updates in ip6_mc_source() pmc->sflist is read locklessly under rcu_read_lock() by inet6_mc_check() during packet reception in the UDP and RAW multicast receive paths. ip6_mc_source() mutated psl->sl_addr and psl->sl_count in-place when adding or removing a source filter. Additionally, when expanding the filter buffer, newpsl was published via rcu_assign_pointer() before writing the new source into the array. Because 16-byte struct in6_addr writes are not atomic and array shifting is not synchronized with RCU readers, concurrent readers in inet6_mc_check() could read torn IPv6 addresses or observe duplicated/missed source entries. Fix this by switching ip6_mc_source() to copy-on-write RCU updates: allocate and fully populate newpsl before publishing it via rcu_assign_pointer(), and reclaim the old filter via kfree_rcu(), matching ip6_mc_msfilter(). Also remove the now unused IP6_SFBLOCK macro.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 < ac51321d3b2391860a935820ebcf4d8b9bb16a8a ; affected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 < dba00514bf668c26cb4900e9f0da84bf96bf065a ; affected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 < 2c2091e2ee93049fc513ad1e6c99d8b6c809f467 ; affected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 < 20db91a052332ef5552bd2f651ffb9db911cf67b ; affected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 < c073d1b070f171d206b19c98d71739a97f15b3f1 ; affected 47c75e3923c8d562fea8daf0ccf31546a7bef0ea
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.13 ; unaffected 0 < 5.13 ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.112 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.53 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.2.7 ≤ 7.2.*

Sources

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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