# ipv6: addrconf: fix temp address generation after prefix deprecation

CVE record · `CVE-2026-97472`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-97472`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 24 Sept 2026
- **Updated:** 3 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 24 Sept 2026, 16:04 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `76f793e3a47139d340185cbc1a314740c09b13d3 to before b00f7c1da82a809156f785ed37536c2d2584927d` (git)
  - affected: `76f793e3a47139d340185cbc1a314740c09b13d3 to before 6da8ba900b85e6478e211427630c67595fb707a4` (git)
  - affected: `76f793e3a47139d340185cbc1a314740c09b13d3 to before 4f7d2a8dc364c4e55d0a1533451339008512933f` (git)
  - affected: `76f793e3a47139d340185cbc1a314740c09b13d3 to before f601ec5c92b3260c742f27a5d2fd289e30ae798f` (git)
  - affected: `76f793e3a47139d340185cbc1a314740c09b13d3 to before bff7b87dfa28a1502c18d0c6f1fadda5162fa854` (git)
  - affected: `76f793e3a47139d340185cbc1a314740c09b13d3 to before 4df5597c65446135362f72880995e8920f058fa0` (git)
  - affected: `76f793e3a47139d340185cbc1a314740c09b13d3 to before e20d8922aa8fe441d291364c96c2179a005b79ea` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `3.2`
  - unaffected: `before 3.2` (semver)
  - unaffected: `5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.12.111 to 6.12.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.2 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 24 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-97472](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97472)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-97472](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97472)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b00f7c1da82a809156f785ed37536c2d2584927d>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6da8ba900b85e6478e211427630c67595fb707a4>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f7d2a8dc364c4e55d0a1533451339008512933f>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f601ec5c92b3260c742f27a5d2fd289e30ae798f>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bff7b87dfa28a1502c18d0c6f1fadda5162fa854>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4df5597c65446135362f72880995e8920f058fa0>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e20d8922aa8fe441d291364c96c2179a005b79ea>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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