CVE-2026-97939 PUBLISHED

ipmr: account multicast table and route memory

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

ipmr: account multicast table and route memory

A netadmin in a user+net namespace can create many IPv4 and IPv6 multicast routing tables with MRT_TABLE and MRT6_TABLE. Each unseen id allocates an mr_table via the shared mr_table_alloc(), links it into the per-net list, and leaves it until netns teardown. Those objects were not charged to memcg, so the host unreclaimable slab grows with the table count.

Account mr_table allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT and mark the IPv4/IPv6 MFC caches SLAB_ACCOUNT. This matches the established handling of IP addresses, routes and alternate interface names.

Unresolved MFC entries are still allocated from softIRQ with GFP_ATOMIC and are not charged. They expire after 10 seconds and are bounded by the socket receive queue; see commit 0079ad8e8dc3 ("ipmr: remove hard code cache_resolve_queue_len limit").

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f0ad0860d01e47a3ffd220564c5c653b3afbe962 to 0264b3ee09b118fec8a5471b4ca288f8ab84722f (excl.)
  • affected from f0ad0860d01e47a3ffd220564c5c653b3afbe962 to d0a2e2a4ee6bfe51e398bfb6921a7d0f4c26bc1c (excl.)
  • affected from f0ad0860d01e47a3ffd220564c5c653b3afbe962 to b7ee18725f2292ab554aa96a101ae42d45f008bd (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.35 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.35 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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