CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43091
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: Wait for RCU readers during policy netns exit
xfrm_policy_fini() frees the policy_bydst hash tables after flushing the
policy work items and deleting all policies, but it does not wait for
concurrent RCU readers to leave their read-side critical sections first.
The policy_bydst tables are published via rcu_assign_pointer() and are
looked up through rcu_dereference_check(), so netns teardown must also
wait for an RCU grace period before freeing the table memory.
Fix this by adding synchronize_rcu() before freeing the policy hash tables.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 6.6.136)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.83)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.14)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/069daad4f2ae9c5c108131995529d5f02392c446 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33a3149dd81a1e2f52b80ee1e0fc380b39f3d028 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3733fce2871c9bca9dd18a1a23b1432ea215a094 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/438b1f668ad58f46ce699bb48e4698a7839e3f9e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b66920a3348c0f63ba18365248fa21fbf0b3a937 Patch