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CVE-2026-80996

net: l2tp: do not propagate multicast notification errors PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: l2tp: do not propagate multicast notification errors The tunnel create, tunnel modify, session create, and session modify netlink handlers send multicast notifications through helpers that can fail while allocating or encoding a message, or while multicasting it. For tunnel and session create/modify, a notification is sent after the live operation has completed. Returning a best-effort notification error as the command result can therefore report failure for an operation that already committed and can cause callers to retry and accumulate live objects. Keep sending notifications for listener visibility, but do not propagate their best-effort status as the command result. This also keeps the tunnel modify command consistent with the other notification-only paths.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b before 7efe1c31e0903a5aa796feb96d3adab574b7ff41; affected 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b before 0fe037d5eaad938aa3e9143ee071aa237750b42b; affected 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b before 9c340473f4822bb31b151c19afd17448eda5acd1; affected 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b before 50c4038f1670bf9a80c6a58ae83d1602decd8481; affected 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b before af20e269f7459d2ce69887fdf2fad7caf986c865
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.0; unaffected 0 before 4.0; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.109 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.50 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.4 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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