CVE-2026-64576

nexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate()

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 5, 2026 at 08:09 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate() nh_res_bucket_migrate() passes an uninitialized netlink_ext_ack to call_nexthop_res_bucket_notifiers(). When nh_notifier_res_bucket_info_init() fails (e.g. the kzalloc returns -ENOMEM), the error is propagated back before any notifier sets extack._msg, and the error path formats the stale pointer with pr_err_ratelimited("%s\n", extack._msg). With CONFIG_INIT_STACK_NONE this dereferences uninitialized stack memory: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ... KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [...] RIP: 0010:string (lib/vsprintf.c:730) vsnprintf (lib/vsprintf.c:2945) _printk (kernel/printk/printk.c:2504) nh_res_bucket_migrate (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:1816) nh_res_table_upkeep (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:1866) rtm_new_nexthop (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3323) rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076) netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900) Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Zero-initialize extack so _msg is NULL on error paths that never set it.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.137c37c7e00411b3d1e0c5292368317aca69d1f324
Vendor states this is fixed in 18506d7263768d76ac8e057ba55a4d9da50aad66 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3081702ea5aca0aeed9c1ade8eadf6cde8db6b7d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 37bbd7e1d8df0bec3d187e961783e20c30533d2c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6347c5314cee49f364aaf2e40ff15415a57a116e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c0936c131a71657afc635d0db2ab096d15d473e1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d536bf205c71f700f6de2086038c3e1d77724715 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in eacd2e2117e8682f937967fda1022e7f1c22d91a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.101 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.1HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusRECEIVED
CWE
CWE-457

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