CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23413
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-04-02
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry
Fix a use-after-free in the clsact qdisc upon init/destroy rollback asymmetry.
The latter is achieved by first fully initializing a clsact instance, and
then in a second step having a replacement failure for the new clsact qdisc
instance. clsact_init() initializes ingress first and then takes care of the
egress part. This can fail midway, for example, via tcf_block_get_ext(). Upon
failure, the kernel will trigger the clsact_destroy() callback.
Commit 1cb6f0bae504 ("bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry") details the
way how the transition is happening. If tcf_block_get_ext on the q->ingress_block
ends up failing, we took the tcx_miniq_inc reference count on the ingress
side, but not yet on the egress side. clsact_destroy() tests whether the
{ingress,egress}_entry was non-NULL. However, even in midway failure on the
replacement, both are in fact non-NULL with a valid egress_entry from the
previous clsact instance.
What we really need to test for is whether the qdisc instance-specific ingress
or egress side previously got initialized. This adds a small helper for checking
the miniq initialization called mini_qdisc_pair_inited, and utilizes that upon
clsact_destroy() in order to fix the use-after-free scenario. Convert the
ingress_destroy() side as well so both are consistent to each other.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.41 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9.10 < 6.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.10.1 < 6.12.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.10
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0509b762bc5e8ea7b8391130730c6d8502fc6e69 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37bef86e5428d59f70a4da82b80f9a8f252fecbe Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c9af67f99aa3e51b522c54968ab3ac8272be41c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0671125d4f55e1e98d9bde8a0b671941987e208 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a73d95b57bf9faebdfed591bcb7ed9292062a84c Patch