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CVE-2026-53221

9.8 critical SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_vti: fix incorrect tunnel matching in vti6_tnl_lookup() In vti6_tnl_lookup(), when an exact match for a tunnel fails, the code falls back to searching for wildcard tunnels: - Tunnels matching the packet's local address, with any remote address wildcard remote). - Tunnels matching the packet's remote address, with any local address (wildcard local). However, vti6 stores all these different types of tunnels in the same hash table (ip6n->tnls_r_l) prone to hash collisions. The bug is that the fallback search loops in vti6_tnl_lookup() were missing checks to ensure that the candidate tunnel actually has a wildcard address.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 8

Vendor advisories in the News 1

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 2

  1. CwesCWE-20NVD modified 2026-10-19 20:19
  2. First seenCVSS 9.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 02:20

Affected (CPE criteria) 8

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 9