{"id":"CVE-2026-23293","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-23293","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:10:09.731Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: vxlan: fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled When booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, the nd_tbl is never initialized because inet6_init() exits before…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: vxlan: fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled\n\nWhen booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, the nd_tbl is never\ninitialized because inet6_init() exits before ndisc_init() is called\nwhich initializes it. If an IPv6 packet is injected into the interface,\nroute_shortcircuit() is called and a NULL pointer dereference happens on\nneigh_lookup().\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000380\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:neigh_lookup+0x20/0x270\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n  <TASK>\n  vxlan_xmit+0x638/0x1ef0 [vxlan]\n  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9e/0x2e0\n  __dev_queue_xmit+0xbee/0x14e0\n  packet_sendmsg+0x116f/0x1930\n  __sys_sendto+0x1f5/0x200\n  __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\n  do_syscall_64+0x12f/0x1590\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nFix this by adding an early check on route_shortcircuit() when protocol\nis ETH_P_IPV6. Note that ipv6_mod_enabled() cannot be used here because\nVXLAN can be built-in even when IPv6 is built as a module.","published":"2026-03-25T11:16:25.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T02:18:48.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00134,"percentile":0.02865,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/168ff39e4758897d2eee4756977d036d52884c7e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f93e6b4d12bd3a4517a6d447ea675f448f21434","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/649e2bb74da54c96cf20729001e283626a2fefa0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abcd48ecdeb2e12eccb8339a35534c757782afcd","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5190fcd75a1f1785c766a8d1e44d3938e168f45","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc3e62cf3bbf66280a907ec379f373d0c3b8b2bc","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0373e9317bc904e7bdb123d3106fe4f3cea2fb7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbbd2118982c55fb9b0a753ae0cf7194e77149fb","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23293","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}