CVE-2026-89790

ipv6: avoid divide by zero in rt6_multipath_rebalance

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

ipv6: avoid divide by zero in rt6_multipath_rebalance

rt6_multipath_rebalance() calculates the total eligible nexthop weight in one pass and programs upper bounds in a second pass. Since RTM_NEWROUTE is RTNL-free, a concurrent ignore_routes_with_linkdown update can make the first pass return zero while the second sees an eligible nexthop, causing rt6_upper_bound_set() to divide by zero.

UBSAN: division-overflow in net/ipv6/route.c:4845:17 Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI rt6_upper_bound_set() net/ipv6/route.c:4845 rt6_multipath_rebalance() fib6_add_rt2node() ip6_route_multipath_add() inet6_rtm_newroute()

Skip upper-bound calculation when the first pass reports a zero total. This respects the lock-free performance considerations here and solves insecure scenarios.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • bd11ff421d36abdb585b9104fa70057bf01b3110 to before f30cf8fd9872299c0c27f9916252ba2b9f422dceAffected
  • bd11ff421d36abdb585b9104fa70057bf01b3110 to before f82b5dbb2fef65b52a62d5ffe05e0483c4385a83Affected
  • bd11ff421d36abdb585b9104fa70057bf01b3110 to before d2c26c2911dd1a363c488add4fb63eb5f0f28f87Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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