CVE-2026-53221 Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.78.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-19282543
  • published27 Aug 2026
  • disclosed25 Aug 2026

Introduced: 25 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-53221  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-default-livepatch to version 6.4.0-150700.53.78.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-livepatch package and not the kernel-default-livepatch package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ip6_vti: fix incorrect tunnel matching in vti6_tnl_lookup()

In vti6_tnl_lookup(), when an exact match for a tunnel fails, the code falls back to searching for wildcard tunnels:

  • Tunnels matching the packet's local address, with any remote address wildcard remote).

  • Tunnels matching the packet's remote address, with any local address (wildcard local).

However, vti6 stores all these different types of tunnels in the same hash table (ip6n->tnls_r_l) prone to hash collisions.

The bug is that the fallback search loops in vti6_tnl_lookup() were missing checks to ensure that the candidate tunnel actually has a wildcard address.

CVSS Base Scores

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