CVE-2026-68322 json
rds: Fix inet6_addr_lst NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
published 2026-08-10 2 mo ago modified 2026-11-06 2 d ago also EUVD-2026-55423
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rds: Fix inet6_addr_lst NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
When booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, inet6_addr_lst is never initialized because inet6_init() exits before addrconf_init() is called to initialize it. An attempt to bind an RDS socket to an ipv6 address results in a crash in __ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags()
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] RIP: 0010:__ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags+0x1df/0x7e0 Call Trace: <TASK> ipv6_chk_addr+0x3b/0x50 rds_tcp_laddr_check+0x155/0x3b0 [rds_tcp] rds_trans_get_preferred+0x15d/0x2d0 [rds] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2d/0x110 rds_bind+0x1433/0x1d60 [rds] ? rds_remove_bound+0xd50/0xd50 [rds] ? aa_af_perm+0x250/0x250 ? __might_fault+0xde/0x190 ? __sys_bind+0x1dc/0x210 __sys_bind+0x1dc/0x210 ? __ia32_sys_socketpair+0x100/0x100 ? restore_fpregs_from_fpstate+0x53/0x100 __x64_sys_bind+0x73/0xb0 ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 RIP: 0033:0x7f47f8269ea9 </TASK>
The following code reproduces the issue:
struct sockaddr_in6 addr; s = socket(PF_RDS, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr)); inet_pton(AF_INET6, ADDRESS, &addr.sin6_addr); addr.sin6_family = AF_INET6; addr.sin6_port = htons(PORT);
bind(s, &addr, sizeof(addr));
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.10.265, 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.151, 6.12.103, 6.18.44, 7.1.6, 7.2
- linux Debian 12 6.1.187-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.105-1
- linux Debian 14 7.1.6-1
- linux-6.12 Debian 12 6.12.107-1~deb12u1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68322
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-198.208
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-38.38
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1117.124
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1014.14
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1118.128
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1014.14
- linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1113.119
- linux-gke Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1008.9
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68322
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1
- kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1
- kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1
- kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1
- kernel-default SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP7, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +2 more 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1
- kernel-zfcpdump SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1
- kernel-obs-build SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1
- kernel-default-base SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1.150700.17.45.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4254-1SUSE-SU-2026:23887-1SUSE-SU-2026:23902-1SUSE-SU-2026:23897-1SUSE-SU-2026:23881-1SUSE-SU-2026:4120-1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.38.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21910-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7809344be3f0c1bbfdfdde1cefafeec14bf52d51 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/438dec9b0a06bd1f8db8c58539c655e735e17367 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b61c9eb5931bb7389bc104faacd8c17d910da65d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e48d7ab1e01936a172ff31531904b003895fd8c commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8302e758050e6a922765aee8d220a4fd350f52d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6787fdffcae5490c779f0f3f33b11597525d1ae commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/00d5707217b5972554898ff734ae7b71bce704e6 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c805e592a29be9e4e61ff1bd567da04aa8fd6f9 commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-68322 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: rds: Fix inet6_addr_lst NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +30 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-selftests-internal Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel 6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26 kernel 6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2not affected: vulnerable code not present
+1 more productsfewer
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 2 d ago
Exploit prediction
0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/7809344be3f0c1bbfdfdde1cefafeec14bf52d51
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/438dec9b0a06bd1f8db8c58539c655e735e17367
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b61c9eb5931bb7389bc104faacd8c17d910da65d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8e48d7ab1e01936a172ff31531904b003895fd8c
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a8302e758050e6a922765aee8d220a4fd350f52d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/f6787fdffcae5490c779f0f3f33b11597525d1ae
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/00d5707217b5972554898ff734ae7b71bce704e6
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9c805e592a29be9e4e61ff1bd567da04aa8fd6f9
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-68322
- NVD CVE-2026-68322
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