{"id":"CVE-2026-98379","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ip6t_rpfilter: reject routes without inet6_dev\n\nip6_route_lookup() can return an error-free route whose rt6i_idev is\nNULL","summary":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ip6t_rpfilter: reject routes without inet6_dev\n\nip6_route_lookup() can return an error-free route whose rt6i_idev is\nNULL. Lowering an external nexthop devic…","severity":"high","published":"2026-10-09","updated":"2026-10-09","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-09T08:16:56.250","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98379","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1681ab6dd1271f2f36047490793b78b1848bbcc9","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b9b5323725e458906c7620a3bc10398b51ad954","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/290c96e5d9471d1ded9ab1e8ffbb04f6ee7b0f40","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a7384bc2e66217c9a01a392281334f4423740a0","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65487e9e99431ffcf05024a817f51ee4e3bd9b47","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eafe081ea77d25b5c8e601680671b4ecb4520e7d","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f49da48bd679cfee646d6a40dd02b1933de577d1","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4de78756b0fddbd125b2b1b77c74f2eccc8e977","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-98379.json"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-98379"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2548390"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98379"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98379"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98379.mbox"}],"tags":["nvd","csaf","vex","red-hat","cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-09T08:29:41.350Z","vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","affected":["enterprise_linux 10","enterprise_linux 7","enterprise_linux 8","enterprise_linux 9","openshift_container_platform 4"],"cvss":7,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cvssSource":"vendor","cwe":["CWE-476"],"epss":0.00171,"epssPercentile":0.06432,"slug":"CVE-2026-98379","body":"## Overview\n\nIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ip6t_rpfilter: reject routes without inet6_dev\n\nip6_route_lookup() can return an error-free route whose rt6i_idev is\nNULL. Lowering an external nexthop device's MTU below IPV6_MIN_MTU tears\ndown its inet6_dev while fib6_ifdown() leaves routes using nexthop objects\nin the FIB. An unprivileged user can construct this state with rtnetlink\nin a private user and network namespace, then trigger a NULL dereference\nthrough an IPv6 rpfilter lookup:\n\n  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n  0xdffffc0000000000\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n  RIP: rpfilter_mt (net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_rpfilter.c:75)\n  Call Trace:\n  ip6t_do_table (net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:316)\n  nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)\n  ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351)\n  __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6216)\n  process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6680)\n  __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7739)\n  net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7959)\n  handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)\n  do_softirq.part.0 (kernel/softirq.c:523)\n  __local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:450)\n  __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4913)\n  packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3139)\n  __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2252)\n  __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2259)\n  do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nReject routes without an inet6_dev immediately after lookup. Such routes\nare not eligible for reverse-path filtering, and the check protects all\nlater rt6i_idev dereferences.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.\n\n## Vendor advisories\n\n- **Red Hat VEX** · Moderate · affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · no fix planned: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, … · updated 2026-10-10 · [vex](https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-98379.json)","depth":"twilight","depthScore":39,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":38.5,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":219111,"id":"CVE-2026-98379","ts":1791707064839,"field":"cvss","old":null,"new":"7"},{"seq":219110,"id":"CVE-2026-98379","ts":1791707064839,"field":"severity","old":"none","new":"high"}]}