{"id":81062,"date":"2026-06-25T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-53275-ipv6-mcast-fix-use-after-free-when-processing-mld-queries\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:39:59","slug":"cve-2026-53275-ipv6-mcast-fix-use-after-free-when-processing-mld-queries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-53275-ipv6-mcast-fix-use-after-free-when-processing-mld-queries\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-53275 &#8211; ipv6: mcast: Fix use-after-free when processing MLD queries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-53275<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 25, 2026, 8:39 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 4\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>ipv6: mcast: Fix use-after-free when processing MLD queries<\/p>\n<p>When processing an MLD query, a pointer to the multicast group address<br \/>\nis retrieved when initially parsing the packet. This pointer is later<br \/>\ndereferenced without being reloaded despite the fact that the skb header<br \/>\nmight have been reallocated following the pskb_may_pull() calls, leading<br \/>\nto a use-after-free [1].<\/p>\n<p>Fix by copying the multicast group address when the packet is initially<br \/>\nparsed.<\/p>\n[1]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mld_query_work (net\/ipv6\/mcast.c:1512)<br \/>\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff8881154b8e90 by task kworker\/4:1\/118<\/p>\n<p>Workqueue: mld mld_query_work<br \/>\nCall Trace:<\/p>\n<p>dump_stack_lvl (lib\/dump_stack.c:94 lib\/dump_stack.c:120)<br \/>\nprint_address_description.constprop.0 (mm\/kasan\/report.c:378)<br \/>\nprint_report (mm\/kasan\/report.c:482)<br \/>\nkasan_report (mm\/kasan\/report.c:595)<br \/>\n__mld_query_work (net\/ipv6\/mcast.c:1512)<br \/>\nmld_query_work (net\/ipv6\/mcast.c:1563)<br \/>\nprocess_one_work (kernel\/workqueue.c:3314)<br \/>\nworker_thread (kernel\/workqueue.c:3397 kernel\/workqueue.c:3478)<br \/>\nkthread (kernel\/kthread.c:436)<br \/>\nret_from_fork (arch\/x86\/kernel\/process.c:158)<br \/>\nret_from_fork_asm (arch\/x86\/entry\/entry_64.S:245)<\/p>\n[&#8230;]\n<p>Freed by task 118:<br \/>\nkasan_save_stack (mm\/kasan\/common.c:57)<br \/>\nkasan_save_track (mm\/kasan\/common.c:78)<br \/>\nkasan_save_free_info (mm\/kasan\/generic.c:584)<br \/>\n__kasan_slab_free (mm\/kasan\/common.c:253 mm\/kasan\/common.c:285)<br \/>\nkfree (.\/include\/linux\/kasan.h:235 mm\/slub.c:2689 mm\/slub.c:6251 mm\/slub.c:6566)<br \/>\npskb_expand_head (net\/core\/skbuff.c:2335)<br \/>\n__pskb_pull_tail (net\/core\/skbuff.c:2878 (discriminator 4))<br \/>\n__mld_query_work (net\/ipv6\/mcast.c:1495 (discriminator 1))<br \/>\nmld_query_work (net\/ipv6\/mcast.c:1563)<br \/>\nprocess_one_work (kernel\/workqueue.c:3314)<br \/>\nworker_thread (kernel\/workqueue.c:3397 kernel\/workqueue.c:3478)<br \/>\nkthread (kernel\/kthread.c:436)<br \/>\nret_from_fork (arch\/x86\/kernel\/process.c:158)<br \/>\nret_from_fork_asm (arch\/x86\/entry\/entry_64.S:245)<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-53275 Published : June 25, 2026, 8:39 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 4\u00a0minutes ago Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: Fix use-after-free when processing MLD queries When processing an MLD query, a pointer to the multicast group address is retrieved when initially parsing the packet. This pointer is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}