In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: Fix fib_nlmsg_size() for RTA_VIA nexthops fib_nlmsg_size() still estimates nexthop space as if every gateway is encoded as an IPv4 RTA_GATEWAY attribute. IPv4 routes can also carry an IPv6 gateway, which fib_nexthop_info() dumps as RTA_VIA. As a result, route notifications can allocate an skb that is too small. fib_dump_info() then fails with -EMSGSIZE and rtmsg_fib() hits the WARN_ON() that marks such failures as a fib_nlmsg_size() bug. With panic_on_warn set, this becomes a kernel panic. Mirror the actual nexthop dump layout in fib_nlmsg_size(): account for IPv6 nexthop gateways dumped as RTA_VIA, for the no-header rtnexthop layout used inside RTA_MULTIPATH, and for RTA_FLOW only when it is actually present.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenunscoredNVD modified 2026-10-14 13:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f0ca602941d0a81ae9514943ca06c55159c6385
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a5dfbae5179f6574695012a980476254df2d295
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ff9548d84945d2cbf9e4c207288063a200ea397
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5307a53599fa762c06e475ee4a375252074fd324
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57195f0ab5cfbb5ee0864e5aff15ceb48f5a5e28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f80ad373ce4a7af5367ff273cea0f16e91387f3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b22f13524fa0de0d963bbd3002df6c28bae3395
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a59edda6eda1252340354322d8ab318b2e9052fb