Data disclosure and crash via stale IPv6 pointer
Published Sep 4, 2026 · Updated Sep 4, 2026
Use-after-free in Linux IPv6 output allows attackers to disclose kernel data, corrupt neighbor entries, misdirect traffic, or crash systems. ip6_finish_output2 caches daddr before lwtunnel_xmit, then reuses that stale pointer after an skb-head reallocation to compute a nexthop and access the neighbor table. Reachability requires an LWT-BPF transmit or other encapsulation path that reallocates the buffer and returns LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE; the public record does not identify the attacker's required privileges or location.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Linux IPv6 output allows attackers to disclose kernel data, corrupt neighbor entries, misdirect traffic, or crash systems. ip6_finish_output2 caches daddr before lwtunnel_xmit, then reuses that stale pointer after an skb-head reallocation to compute a nexthop and access the neighbor table. Reachability requires an LWT-BPF transmit or other encapsulation path that reallocates the buffer and returns LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE; the public record does not identify the attacker's required privileges or location.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-80792
- Published
- Sep 4, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 4, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 4, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 4, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1598154fd28ffa4a55beae1970475fd6776554b6
- Affected versionversion=4132c4ad00ddbf3a175ea0d2c775b662a32f4c85 <75e0a544ebe9af663ef53ca21e9e9185c51fb54a
- Affected versionversion=5.10.233 <5.10.267
- Affected versionversion=5.15
- Affected versionversion=5.4.289 <5.5
- Affected versionversion=e415ed3a4b8b246ee5e9d109ff5153efcf96b9f2 <087ee0d914aaae929f1660c9ca878e367655ba1a
- Affected versionversion=e415ed3a4b8b246ee5e9d109ff5153efcf96b9f2 <3c770ac4e6f07af7c7b40c474a3efc61ffed7862
- Affected versionversion=e415ed3a4b8b246ee5e9d109ff5153efcf96b9f2 <3dc98e5fe82d069dd29b124ffbdb679331dfea43
- Affected versionversion=e415ed3a4b8b246ee5e9d109ff5153efcf96b9f2 <73a187384a8c8b983c7fea046d716b6752a1e7a3
- Affected versionversion=e415ed3a4b8b246ee5e9d109ff5153efcf96b9f2 <99219c82804f266189388e8bf1cf5135d10d5515
- Affected versionversion=e415ed3a4b8b246ee5e9d109ff5153efcf96b9f2 <c95f01b78266828a57060d754fcbfc92123a98ed
- Affected versionversion=e415ed3a4b8b246ee5e9d109ff5153efcf96b9f2 <d0d48d999b0eee6bb176ef4e39d9be868fa80f7e
- Affected versionversion=e415ed3a4b8b246ee5e9d109ff5153efcf96b9f2 <d960881b9312e781a3429aabceb223ce6b7c882f
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