# CVE-2026-80996: net: l2tp: do not propagate multicast notification errors

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, 7.2.4
- Published: 2026-09-11 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.0
- Kernel (Linux): from 4.0.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.109; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.50; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.4

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: l2tp: do not propagate multicast notification errors The tunnel create, tunnel modify, session create, and session modify netlink handlers send multicast notifications through helpers that can fail while allocating or encoding a message, or while multicasting it. For tunnel and session create/modify, a notification is sent after the live operation has completed. Returning a best-effort notification error as the command result can therefore report failure for an operation that already committed and can cause callers to retry and accumulate live objects. Keep sending notifications for listener visibility, but do not propagate their best-effort status as the command result. This also keeps the tunnel modify command consistent with the other notification-only paths.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (6.6.160, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, 7.2.4) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73761c3cfb6d86392d63335d10f464b9d43275a7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7efe1c31e0903a5aa796feb96d3adab574b7ff41
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fe037d5eaad938aa3e9143ee071aa237750b42b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c340473f4822bb31b151c19afd17448eda5acd1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50c4038f1670bf9a80c6a58ae83d1602decd8481
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af20e269f7459d2ce69887fdf2fad7caf986c865

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