VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-23442

medium
Published 2026-04-03 · Modified 2026-06-01
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: add NULL checks for idev in SRv6 paths __in6_dev_get() can return NULL when the device has no IPv6 configuration (e.g. MTU < IPV6_MIN_MTU or after NETDEV_UNREGISTER). Add NULL checks for idev returned by __in6_dev_get() in both seg6_hmac_validate_skb() and ipv6_srh_rcv() to prevent potential NULL pointer dereferences.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected —
4.10 Affected —
— Affected 6.12.83
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 6.12.85-1
sid Fixed 6.19.10-1
forky Fixed 6.19.10-1
bullseye Affected —
bookworm Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlegcp

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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