CVE-2026-46260 — ipv6: Fix out-of-bound access in fib6_add_rt2node().

2026-10-05T14:34:41.195680+00:00

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: Fix out-of-bound access in fib6_add_rt2node().

syzbot reported out-of-bound read in fib6_add_rt2node(). [0]

When IPv6 route is created with RTA_NH_ID, struct fib6_info does not have the trailing struct fib6_nh.

The cited commit started to check !iter->fib6_nh->fib_nh_gw_family to ensure that rt6_qualify_for_ecmp() will return false for iter.

If iter->nh is not NULL, rt6_qualify_for_ecmp() returns false anyway.

Let's check iter->nh before reading iter->fib6_nh and avoid OOB read.

[0]: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_add_rt2node+0x349c/0x3500 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1142 Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880384ba6de by task syz.0.18/5500

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5500 Comm: syz.0.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595 fib6_add_rt2node+0x349c/0x3500 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1142 fib6_add_rt2node_nh net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1363 [inline] fib6_add+0x910/0x18c0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1531 __ip6_ins_rt net/ipv6/route.c:1351 [inline] ip6_route_add+0xde/0x1b0 net/ipv6/route.c:3957 inet6_rtm_newroute+0x268/0x19e0 net/ipv6/route.c:5660 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958 netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x…

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