CVE-2026-98031 PUBLISHED

nexthop: Initialize extack in remove_nh_grp_entry()

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

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

nexthop: Initialize extack in remove_nh_grp_entry()

remove_nh_grp_entry() prints the extack message when a listener fails to replace the reduced nexthop group. However, extack is not initialized and listeners are not required to set a message when returning an error. Neither netdevsim nor mlxsw do so when an allocation fails, resulting in the dereference of an uninitialized stack pointer.

Fix by zero-initializing extack, as was done in commit 6347c5314cee ("nexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate()").

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 833a1065eeb14437a9a0dfa9dad06ea09894e0b5 to 030c878eaedf0449e2b5401a0a0146d0afcc645e (excl.)
  • affected from 833a1065eeb14437a9a0dfa9dad06ea09894e0b5 to d643cea4248668dc493c513aa7cbc6505eb1a4a9 (excl.)
  • affected from 833a1065eeb14437a9a0dfa9dad06ea09894e0b5 to d80677ad7aa5bebfccfd58caa4852b65abe70561 (excl.)
  • affected from 833a1065eeb14437a9a0dfa9dad06ea09894e0b5 to 5bd9e4e7cdaa03879e9b73b12ab52cceb1edd55b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • 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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