CVE-2026-74657 PUBLISHED

ipv4: Fix fib_nlmsg_size() for RTA_VIA nexthops

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 to 0f0ca602941d0a81ae9514943ca06c55159c6385 (excl.)
  • affected from d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 to 5307a53599fa762c06e475ee4a375252074fd324 (excl.)
  • affected from d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 to 7f80ad373ce4a7af5367ff273cea0f16e91387f3 (excl.)
  • affected from d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 to 4a5dfbae5179f6574695012a980476254df2d295 (excl.)
  • affected from d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 to a59edda6eda1252340354322d8ab318b2e9052fb (excl.)
  • affected from d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 to 9b22f13524fa0de0d963bbd3002df6c28bae3395 (excl.)
  • affected from d15662682db232da77136cd348f4c9df312ca6f9 to 4ff9548d84945d2cbf9e4c207288063a200ea397 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.216 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.183 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.152 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.104 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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