CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53089
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-09-02
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- 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:
bpf: Fix use-after-free in offloaded map/prog info fill
When querying info for an offloaded BPF map or program,
bpf_map_offload_info_fill_ns() and bpf_prog_offload_info_fill_ns()
obtain the network namespace with get_net(dev_net(offmap->netdev)).
However, the associated netdev's netns may be racing with teardown
during netns destruction. If the netns refcount has already reached 0,
get_net() performs a refcount_t increment on 0, triggering:
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
Although rtnl_lock and bpf_devs_lock ensure the netdev pointer remains
valid, they cannot prevent the netns refcount from reaching zero.
Fix this by using maybe_get_net() instead of get_net(). maybe_get_net()
uses refcount_inc_not_zero() and returns NULL if the refcount is already
zero, which causes ns_get_path_cb() to fail and the caller to return
-ENOENT -- the correct behavior when the netns is being destroyed.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.16 < 7.0.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a2dc103e16448d022a77ad5fc3234641436c4b7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43d6848a2a6c92ccfd614d9f0bb6fd85b95dfa9d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5662dac41a3442aa378d7c405164903eb109fc05 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/642943ae5bdacabc8109dc4a5e0ebb4a6b99ef3e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85dc711f742b192eb97c0e00b521312f5a7a415e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0c584fc18056709c8e047a82a6045d6c209f4ce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a51e7fbe94a87e236631a83973d4f558310b2cd2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fea55b034328feaafef75aee252f305e6f85a991 git.kernel.org