CVE-2026-97939

ipmr: account multicast table and route memory

N/A
Published: September 25, 2026 at 10:22 AM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:21 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmr: account multicast table and route memory A netadmin in a user+net namespace can create many IPv4 and IPv6 multicast routing tables with MRT_TABLE and MRT6_TABLE. Each unseen id allocates an mr_table via the shared mr_table_alloc(), links it into the per-net list, and leaves it until netns teardown. Those objects were not charged to memcg, so the host unreclaimable slab grows with the table count. Account mr_table allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT and mark the IPv4/IPv6 MFC caches SLAB_ACCOUNT. This matches the established handling of IP addresses, routes and alternate interface names. Unresolved MFC entries are still allocated from softIRQ with GFP_ATOMIC and are not charged. They expire after 10 seconds and are bounded by the socket receive queue; see commit 0079ad8e8dc3 ("ipmr: remove hard code cache_resolve_queue_len limit").

Affected

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

2.6.35f0ad0860d01e47a3ffd220564c5c653b3afbe962
Vendor states this is fixed in 0264b3ee09b118fec8a5471b4ca288f8ab84722f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b7ee18725f2292ab554aa96a101ae42d45f008bd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d0a2e2a4ee6bfe51e398bfb6921a7d0f4c26bc1c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ec1c6140394ee87127479bc500a3158b125bf07a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.35 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.112 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.53 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc3 (unaffected)

Remediation

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