{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-52981 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-52981 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Jun 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-52981 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-52981 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Jun 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-52981 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-52981/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-52981/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-52981","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-52981/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-52981","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-52981","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-52981","GHSA-36qf-2q77-7jh9","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-52981","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-52981","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-52981","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-52981","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-52981"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's neigh_xmit function can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when IPv6 is disabled.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-401","name":"Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nneigh: let neigh_xmit take skb ownership\n\nneigh_xmit always releases the skb, except when no neighbour table is\nfound. But even the first added user of neigh_xmit (mpls) relied on\nneigh_xmit to release the skb (or queue it for tx).\n\nsashiko reported:\n If neigh_xmit() is called with an uninitialized neighbor table (for\n example, NEIGH_ND_TABLE when IPv6 is disabled), it returns -EAFNOSUPPORT\n and bypasses its internal out_kfree_skb error path.  Because the return\n value of neigh_xmit() is ignored here, does this leak the SKB?\n\nAssume full ownership and remove the last code path that doesn't\nxmit or free skb.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"neigh: let neigh_xmit take skb ownership","id":"CVE-2026-52981","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"net: usb: rtl8150: fix use-after-free in rtl8150_start_xmit()","id":"CVE-2026-52982"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"sched/fair: Clear rel_deadline when initializing forked entities","id":"CVE-2026-52980"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-06-24","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's neigh_xmit function can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when IPv6 is disabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-52981/"}