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CVE-2026-23293

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

net: vxlan: fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled

When booting with the ‘ipv6.disable=1’ parameter, the nd_tbl is never
initialized because inet6_init() exits before ndisc_init() is called
which initializes it. If an IPv6 packet is injected into the interface,
route_shortcircuit() is called and a NULL pointer dereference happens on
neigh_lookup().

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000380
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[…]
RIP: 0010:neigh_lookup+0x20/0x270
[…]
Call Trace:

vxlan_xmit+0x638/0x1ef0 [vxlan]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9e/0x2e0
__dev_queue_xmit+0xbee/0x14e0
packet_sendmsg+0x116f/0x1930
__sys_sendto+0x1f5/0x200
__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x12f/0x1590
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Fix this by adding an early check on route_shortcircuit() when protocol
is ETH_P_IPV6. Note that ipv6_mod_enabled() cannot be used here because
VXLAN can be built-in even when IPv6 is built as a module.

More information : https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/168ff39e4758897d2eee4756977d036d52884c7e

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