CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-52925
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-07-08
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vrf: Fix a potential NPD when removing a port from a VRF
RCU readers that identified a net device as a VRF port using
netif_is_l3_slave() assume that a subsequent call to
netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu() will return a VRF device. They then
continue to dereference its l3mdev operations.
This assumption is not always correct and can result in a NPD [1]. There
is no RCU synchronization when removing a port from a VRF, so it is
possible for an RCU reader to see a new master device (e.g., a bridge)
that does not have l3mdev operations.
Fix by adding RCU synchronization after clearing the IFF_L3MDEV_SLAVE
flag. Skip this synchronization when a net device is removed from a VRF
as part of its deletion and when the VRF device itself is deleted. In
the latter case an RCU grace period will pass by the time RTNL is
released.
[1]
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[...]
RIP: 0010:l3mdev_fib_table_rcu (net/l3mdev/l3mdev.c:181)
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
l3mdev_fib_table_by_index (net/l3mdev/l3mdev.c:201 net/l3mdev/l3mdev.c:189)
__inet_bind (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:499 (discriminator 3))
inet_bind_sk (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:469)
__sys_bind (./include/linux/file.h:62 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/file.h:83 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:1951 (discriminator 1))
__x64_sys_bind (net/socket.c:1969 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:1967 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:1967 (discriminator 1))
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 5.10.258)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.209)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.175)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.141)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.91)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.10)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2674d603a9e6970463b2b9ebcf8e31e90beae169 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c022f582fd16a470df6ed9e7fb7e9fc48946d49 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3db8d078f7f652379ee394132b169d304f6eb4c1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/468defa0b70902a22f4478c1207624bc1b31c124 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ab6fc60ed5a0344b60711b09bff1dc238d8d6a4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c2b792f04a3db97c9d8d2a45817e93f8884baf5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7a97f2303e63ede105c1d55ef53dc497364e11d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d47204c127992da0c976ac9747070a575912e0fe Patch