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CVE-2026-98101

ipv6: mcast: use copy-on-write RCU updates in ip6_mc_source() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use copy-on-write RCU updates in ip6_mc_source() pmc->sflist is read locklessly under rcu_read_lock() by inet6_mc_check() during packet reception in the UDP and RAW multicast receive paths. ip6_mc_source() mutated psl->sl_addr and psl->sl_count in-place when adding or removing a source filter. Additionally, when expanding the filter buffer, newpsl was published via rcu_assign_pointer() before writing the new source into the array. Because 16-byte struct in6_addr writes are not atomic and array shifting is not synchronized with RCU readers, concurrent readers in inet6_mc_check() could read torn IPv6 addresses or observe duplicated/missed source entries. Fix this by switching ip6_mc_source() to copy-on-write RCU updates: allocate and fully populate newpsl before publishing it via rcu_assign_pointer(), and reclaim the old filter via kfree_rcu(), matching ip6_mc_msfilter(). Also remove the now unused IP6_SFBLOCK macro.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 before ac51321d3b2391860a935820ebcf4d8b9bb16a8a; affected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 before dba00514bf668c26cb4900e9f0da84bf96bf065a; affected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 before 2c2091e2ee93049fc513ad1e6c99d8b6c809f467; affected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 before 20db91a052332ef5552bd2f651ffb9db911cf67b; affected 882ba1f73c06831f2a21044ebd8864c485ac04f2 before c073d1b070f171d206b19c98d71739a97f15b3f1; affected 47c75e3923c8d562fea8daf0ccf31546a7bef0ea; affected 5.10.261 before 5.11
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.13; unaffected 0 before 5.13; unaffected 6.6.158 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.112 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.53 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.7 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

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