CVE-2026-64423 PUBLISHED

ipv4: igmp: remove multicast group from hash table on device destruction

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

ipv4: igmp: remove multicast group from hash table on device destruction

When a device is destroyed under RTNL, ip_mc_destroy_dev() iterates through the multicast list and calls ip_ma_put() on each membership, scheduling them for RCU reclamation. However, they are not unlinked from the device's multicast hash table (mc_hash).

Since the device remains published in dev->ip_ptr until after ip_mc_destroy_dev() completes, concurrent RCU readers traversing mc_hash can still locate and access the multicast group after its refcount is decremented. If the RCU callback runs and frees the group while a reader is accessing it, a use-after-free occurs.

Fix this by unlinking the multicast group from mc_hash using ip_mc_hash_remove() before scheduling it for reclamation.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ip_check_mc_rcu+0x149/0x3f0 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888009bf1408 by task mausezahn/2276

Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack_lvl+0x67/0x90 print_report+0x175/0x7c0 kasan_report+0x147/0x180 ip_check_mc_rcu+0x149/0x3f0 udp_v4_early_demux+0x36d/0x12d0 ip_rcv_finish_core+0xb8b/0x1390 ip_rcv_finish+0x54/0x120 NF_HOOK+0x213/0x2b0 __netif_receive_skb+0x126/0x340 process_backlog+0x4f2/0xf00 __napi_poll+0x92/0x2c0 net_rx_action+0x583/0xc60 handle_softirqs+0x236/0x7f0 do_softirq+0x57/0x80 </IRQ>

Allocated by task 2239: kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 __kasan_kmalloc+0x72/0x90 _ipmc_inc_group+0x31a/0xa40 ip_mc_join_group+0x334/0x3f0 do_ip_setsockopt+0x16fa/0x2010 ip_setsockopt+0x3f/0x90 do_sock_setsockopt+0x1ad/0x300

Freed by task 0: kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 __kasan_slab_free+0x3a/0x60 __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0xd4/0x220 rcu_free_sheaf+0x36/0x190 rcu_core+0x8d9/0x12f0 handle_softirqs+0x236/0x7f0

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e9897071350bd9d94a56b5b6f79c85b1a98fc7e7 to 412ba7def06ffe974ba9a1d862b022362c54ffa5 (excl.)
  • affected from e9897071350bd9d94a56b5b6f79c85b1a98fc7e7 to c6cb5f8ebe1c1a78710c19f102db9fe48b9e6ba9 (excl.)
  • affected from e9897071350bd9d94a56b5b6f79c85b1a98fc7e7 to 5f42729d74bd6c61306d864423290d92962de4e1 (excl.)
  • affected from e9897071350bd9d94a56b5b6f79c85b1a98fc7e7 to 76d030ac95e17f91d69a595f17ebc5979700cf9a (excl.)
  • affected from e9897071350bd9d94a56b5b6f79c85b1a98fc7e7 to 8820b530cb2388503d7418228d03ba074bf7a03e (excl.)
  • affected from e9897071350bd9d94a56b5b6f79c85b1a98fc7e7 to 2ca18df1c2611f70eb3eb487e02ae85eb703b284 (excl.)
  • affected from e9897071350bd9d94a56b5b6f79c85b1a98fc7e7 to f91883031e5a62877a29ce139442973cbea769f1 (excl.)
  • affected from e9897071350bd9d94a56b5b6f79c85b1a98fc7e7 to 7993211bde166471dffac074dc965489f86531f8 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.261 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.96 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc3 to * (incl.)

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