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CVE-2026-63969

ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in rt6_fill_node()

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.1.176, 6.6.143, 6.12.93, 6.12
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in rt6_fill_node() Sashiko reported this issue [1]. Apply the same fix as commit f8d8ce1b515a ("ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()"). Writers holding tb6_lock can list_del_rcu(&rt->fib6_siblings) without waiting for RCU readers; rt->fib6_siblings.next then still points into the old ring and this softirq-side walker never reaches &rt->fib6_siblings, causing a CPU stall. fib6_del_route() always WRITE_ONCE()s rt->fib6_nsiblings to 0 before list_del_rcu(), so an inside-loop check is a reliable detach signal. [1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260526020227.4857-1-jiayuan.chen%40linux.dev

Timeline

  1. CVE published

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 6.1.128 · fixed in 6.1.176; From 6.6.75 · fixed in 6.6.143; From 6.12.2 · fixed in 6.12.93; From 6.11.11 · fixed in 6.12

  • Linux Linux

    6.13

References 6

git.kernel.org