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CVE-2026-98026

Last refreshed2026-10-03

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-98026

Key Details

CVECVE-2026-98026
Affected productsLinux Linux

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

VendorProductAffected VersionsPatch Status
LinuxLinux
SubsystemsGeneral OT
SectorsMultiple

What to Know

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

net: bridge: mcast: properly convert mglist to rcu

Sashiko reported a bug [1] that br_multicast_del_port_group unlists the

port group not using proper rcu helper that preserves the next pointer and

after that immediately frees the port group without waiting for rcu grace

period. The only rcu walker of mglist is br_multicast_list_adjacent() and

it turns out that function has always been buggy because mglist was never

properly converted to RCU. Fix it by converting it to rcu and moving its

initialization after eth_addr's. Initializing p->next can use

RCU_INIT_POINTER because we have a barrier from the hlist_add_head_rcu call

later, besides we're initializing an unpublished structure anyway.

[1] https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/20260826014200.362304-1-littleddfu%40gmail.com (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References

SourceReference
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98026
CVEhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98026