{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-68322","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-07-30T09:28:09.382Z","datePublished":"2026-08-10T12:02:57.499Z","dateUpdated":"2026-08-19T16:33:12.816Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-08-19T16:33:12.816Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrds: Fix inet6_addr_lst NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled\n\nWhen booting with the 'ipv6.disable=1' parameter, inet6_addr_lst\nis never initialized because inet6_init() exits before addrconf_init()\nis called to initialize it. An attempt to bind an RDS socket to\nan ipv6 address results in a crash in __ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags()\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\nRIP: 0010:__ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags+0x1df/0x7e0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n ipv6_chk_addr+0x3b/0x50\n rds_tcp_laddr_check+0x155/0x3b0 [rds_tcp]\n rds_trans_get_preferred+0x15d/0x2d0 [rds]\n ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2d/0x110\n rds_bind+0x1433/0x1d60 [rds]\n ? rds_remove_bound+0xd50/0xd50 [rds]\n ? aa_af_perm+0x250/0x250\n ? __might_fault+0xde/0x190\n ? __sys_bind+0x1dc/0x210\n __sys_bind+0x1dc/0x210\n ? __ia32_sys_socketpair+0x100/0x100\n ? restore_fpregs_from_fpstate+0x53/0x100\n __x64_sys_bind+0x73/0xb0\n ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\nRIP: 0033:0x7f47f8269ea9\n </TASK>\n\nThe following code reproduces the issue:\n\nstruct sockaddr_in6 addr;\ns = socket(PF_RDS, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);\n\nmemset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));\ninet_pton(AF_INET6, ADDRESS, &addr.sin6_addr);\naddr.sin6_family = AF_INET6;\naddr.sin6_port = htons(PORT);\n\nbind(s, &addr, sizeof(addr));\n\nFound by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center\n(linuxtesting.org) with 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