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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-80646 (HIGH 7.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: guard against possible NULL deref in __in6_dev_stats_get() dev_get_by_index_rcu() could return NULL if the original physical device is unregistered. Found by Sashiko.

[NVD] CVE-2026-80646 (HIGH 7.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: guard against possible NULL deref in __in6_dev_stats_get() dev_get_by_index_rcu() could return NULL if the original physical device is unregistered. Found by Sashiko.

mednvdPublished 2026-08-28

CVE-2026-80646 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2026-08-28T08:16:49.550

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

ipv6: guard against possible NULL deref in __in6_dev_stats_get()

dev_get_by_index_rcu() could return NULL if the original physical device is unregistered.

Found by Sashiko.

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80646