CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43481
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-26
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net-shapers: don't free reply skb after genlmsg_reply()
genlmsg_reply() hands the reply skb to netlink, and
netlink_unicast() consumes it on all return paths, whether the
skb is queued successfully or freed on an error path.
net_shaper_nl_get_doit() and net_shaper_nl_cap_get_doit()
currently jump to free_msg after genlmsg_reply() fails and call
nlmsg_free(msg), which can hit the same skb twice.
Return the genlmsg_reply() error directly and keep free_msg
only for pre-reply failures.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.9)
• linux linux kernel 7.0