# CVE-2026-89564: ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.111, 6.18.50, 7.2.4
- Published: 2026-09-11 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.7
- Kernel (Linux): from 5.7.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.111; 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: ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb->sk association installed by bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under RCU. Both address families can also prefetch a socket in UDP early demux. In both paths (BPF and UDP early demux) a reference is not guaranteed to be held on the socket. When a multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the receive-side RCU section ends. After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb->sk. Orphan the skb before each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding with a socket-free clone.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (6.6.160, 6.12.111, 6.18.50, 7.2.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/592b91f41d4f35e37c9e0be1c46a4c28437642cd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/882212d317a7c16ab70d20656f6b1c42abada9f6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e62aef7d6a5b27569bf540bbe11a9482117ff588
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8af6fbac895f057c4b8ff8a2e3fb4c5827fe4ce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1281d4b99089fbaf0d3579bba62a814ebb4de4d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10d

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