CVE-2026-74475 PUBLISHED

vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 15.08.2026 Updated: 15.08.2026

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

vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()

The neighbour hardware address n->ha can be updated asynchronously by the neighbour subsystem, protected by n->ha_lock seqlock. Reading n->ha without holding the seqlock loop can lead to torn reads or reading a partially updated MAC address.

Use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit() to safely copy n->ha under read_seqbegin()/read_seqretry() lock protection before using it.

Note that arp_reduce() and neigh_reduce() seem to have the same issue left for future patches.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to d08e8ac13f2e228cc7fc3c70b5ebe71557b624a0 (excl.)
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to ec341bb76d77b4c2948764375ee6bfeef4bb41c3 (excl.)
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to ff89415d34c3ab9f5312316423122e664ed3524f (excl.)
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to 05f2987f73daa05333fd713d05546142f9f7c5f0 (excl.)
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to 8eca411347e1d38964f9ed2c8d3b6ab0e7e4473d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.151 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.103 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.44 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc6 to * (incl.)

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