CVE-2026-89564: ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.13% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: Linux Linux 592b91f41d4f35e37c9e0be1c46a4c28437642cd, 882212d317a7c16ab70d20656f6b1c42abada9f6, a8af6fbac895f057c4b8ff8a2e3fb4c5827fe4ce; azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 Release Notes; azl3 kernel 6.6.159.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 Release Notes.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 592b91f41d4f35e37c9e0be1c46a4c28437642cd, 882212d317a7c16ab70d20656f6b1c42abada9f6, a8af6fbac895f057c4b8ff8a2e3fb4c5827fe4ce; azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 Release Notes; azl3 kernel 6.6.159.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 Release Notes or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip: orphan prefetched skbs before multicast forwarding IPv4 and IPv6 input preserve an skb->sk association installed by bpf_sk_assign() so that local delivery can use the selected socket under RCU. Both address families can also prefetch a socket in UDP early demux. In both paths (BPF and UDP early demux) a reference is not guaranteed to be held on the socket. When a multicast packet is not locally deliverable, IPv6 hands the original skb to ip6_mr_input(). IPv4's ip_mr_input() similarly keeps the original skb when local delivery is not needed. Either path can put the skb on an unresolved multicast route queue or forward it after the receive-side RCU section ends. After the prefetched socket is destroyed, a later skb free invokes sock_pfree() and dereferences the stale skb->sk. Orphan the skb before each non-local multicast forwarding path. Local delivery retains the original skb; the existing skb_clone() calls provide multicast forwarding with a socket-free clone.
- Published
- Sep 11, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 30, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.1% · 3th percentile
- CWE
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Report tools
Action score
31
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.1%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · Linux
- 7.8
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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What does it mean in your environment?
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Linux Linux
- 5.7affected
- cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 and later · before 592b91f41d4f35e37c9e0be1c46a4c28437642cdaffected · git
- cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 and later · before 882212d317a7c16ab70d20656f6b1c42abada9f6affected · git
- cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 and later · before e62aef7d6a5b27569bf540bbe11a9482117ff588affected · git
- cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 and later · before a8af6fbac895f057c4b8ff8a2e3fb4c5827fe4ceaffected · git
- cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 and later · before f1281d4b99089fbaf0d3579bba62a814ebb4de4daffected · git
- cf7fbe660f2dbd738ab58aea8e9b0ca6ad232449 and later · before e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10daffected · git
- before 5.7not affected · semver
- 6.1.191 and later · up to and including 6.1.*not affected · semver
- 6.6.160 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | from 0 | — |
| Debian:12 | linux-6.12 | before 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 | 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 |
| Debian:13 | linux | before 6.12.111-1 | 6.12.111-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | before 7.2.6-1 | 7.2.6-1 |
Same product
linux: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-74705udp: fix potential use-after-free in tunnel segmentation40Plan
- CVE-2026-74612veth: fix skb length accounting after XDP frag adjustment40Plan
- CVE-2026-74475vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()40Plan
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-89562Sep 11, 2026 · ip6_gre: fix hardware header length for NBMA tunnels31Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-89563Sep 11, 2026 · ip6_tunnel: use skb_cow_head() in ip6_tnl_xmit()31Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-89565Sep 11, 2026 · ipip: fix skb leak in collect_md mode when metadata_dst allocation fails0Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 592b91f41d4f35e37c9e0be1c46a4c28437642cd | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 882212d317a7c16ab70d20656f6b1c42abada9f6 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | a8af6fbac895f057c4b8ff8a2e3fb4c5827fe4ce | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10d | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | e62aef7d6a5b27569bf540bbe11a9482117ff588 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | f1281d4b99089fbaf0d3579bba62a814ebb4de4d | Vendor (CNA) |
| azl3 kernel 6.6.150.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 | — | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| azl3 kernel 6.6.152.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 | — | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 | Release Notes | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| azl3 kernel 6.6.159.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 | Release Notes | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| debian:linux | 6.12.111-1 · Debian:13 | Package registry (OSV) |
| debian:linux-6.12 | 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-1085 · Sep 14, 2026(Linux Kernel Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- SSVC exploitation— → none
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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- git.kernel.org/stable/c/882212d317a7c16ab70d20656f6b1c42abada9f6
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8af6fbac895f057c4b8ff8a2e3fb4c5827fe4ce
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e36ce6e78fe3fc3c071a26750783b7ba081ce10d
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e62aef7d6a5b27569bf540bbe11a9482117ff588
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1281d4b99089fbaf0d3579bba62a814ebb4de4d
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.