THREAT OPS › Threat 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.
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
- CVE-2026-80646cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80646