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  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in fib6_nh_mtu_change().\n\nfib6_nh_mtu_change() re-fetches idev via __in6_dev_get(arg-\u003edev) and\ndereferences idev-\u003ecnf.mtu6 without a NULL check. addrconf_ifdown()\nclears dev-\u003eip6_ptr with RCU_INIT_POINTER() after rt6_disable_ip() has\nreleased tb6_lock, so the RA-driven MTU walk can observe a NULL idev and\noops. The caller rt6_mtu_change_route() guards its own __in6_dev_get(),\nbut this re-fetch is unguarded; nexthop-backed routes survive\naddrconf_ifdown()'s flush, so the walk still reaches it after ip6_ptr is\nnulled.\n\nReturn 0 when idev is NULL, matching rt6_mtu_change_route() and the\nfib6_mtu() fix in commit 5ad509c1fdad (\"ipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in\nfib6_mtu().\").\n\n  Oops: general protection fault, ... KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range\n        [0x00000000000002a8-0x00000000000002af]\n  RIP: 0010:fib6_nh_mtu_change+0x203/0x990\n   rt6_mtu_change_route+0x141/0x1d0\n   __fib6_clean_all+0xd0/0x160\n   rt6_mtu_change+0xb4/0x100\n   ndisc_router_discovery+0x24b5/0x2cb0\n   icmpv6_rcv+0x12e9/0x1710\n   ipv6_rcv+0x39b/0x410",
  "id": "CVE-2026-64538",
  "modified": "2026-09-10T03:30:39.468440589Z",
  "published": "2026-07-27T20:10:32.779Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html"
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64538"
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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  "summary": "ipv6: Fix null-ptr-deref in fib6_nh_mtu_change()."
}