published October 9, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ip6t_rpfilter: reject routes without inet6_dev
ip6_route_lookup() can return an error-free route whose rt6i_idev is
NULL. Lowering an external nexthop device's MTU below IPV6_MIN_MTU tears
down its inet6_dev while fib6_ifdown() leaves routes using nexthop objects
in the FIB. An unprivileged user can construct this state with rtnetlink
in a private user and network namespace, then trigger a NULL dereference
through an IPv6 rpfilter lookup:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000000
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
RIP: rpfilter_mt (net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rpfilter.c:75)
Call Trace:
ip6t_do_table (net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:316)
nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)
ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351)
__netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6216)
process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6680)
__napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7739)
net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7959)
handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)
do_softirq.part.0 (kernel/softirq.c:523)
__local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:450)
__dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4913)
packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3139)
__sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2252)
__x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2259)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Reject routes without an inet6_dev immediately after lookup. Such routes
are not eligible for reverse-path filtering, and the check protects all
later rt6i_idev dereferences.