CVE-2026-98031

Name	CVE-2026-98031
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nexthop: Initialize extack in remove_nh_grp_entry() remove_nh_grp_entry() prints the extack message when a listener fails to replace the reduced nexthop group. However, extack is not initialized and listeners are not required to set a message when returning an error. Neither netdevsim nor mlxsw do so when an allocation fails, resulting in the dereference of an uninitialized stack pointer. Fix by zero-initializing extack, as was done in commit 6347c5314cee ("nexthop: initialize extack in nh_res_bucket_migrate()").
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4817-1, DSA-6528-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.187-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.111-1	fixed
	forky	7.2.9-1	fixed
	sid	7.2.10-1	fixed
linux-6.12 (PTS)	bookworm (security)	6.12.111-1~deb12u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	trixie	6.12.111-1	DSA-6528-1
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.7-1
linux-6.12	source	bookworm	6.12.111-1~deb12u1	DLA-4817-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/5bd9e4e7cdaa03879e9b73b12ab52cceb1edd55b (7.3-rc3)