CVE-2026-98285 PUBLISHED

net: bridge: vlan: fix bugs caused by switchdev deletion errors

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

net: bridge: vlan: fix bugs caused by switchdev deletion errors

Allowing switchdev to prevent vlan deletion and error out in __vlan_del could cause multiple different issues - inconsistent state, memory leaks when flushing, NULL pointer dereference on bridge error when flushing. It doesn't make sense to allow it to stop __vlan_del, so log the error and continue with software vlan deletion. This is also consistent with 8021q behaviour.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bf361ad38165939049a2649b1a0078f3268d4bd1 to ed3ea86db736a30bebf49b947c42730e8451bcd2 (excl.)
  • affected from bf361ad38165939049a2649b1a0078f3268d4bd1 to 2842ce397dd09882530b42f7fdb0c855767eb24e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

References