CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64580
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-05
- 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-415
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm6: clear dst.dev on error to avoid double netdev_put in xfrm6_fill_dst()
On the error path where in6_dev_get(dev) returns NULL, xfrm6_fill_dst()
releases the device reference with netdev_put() but leaves
xdst->u.dst.dev set. dst_destroy() later calls netdev_put(dst->dev)
again, so the same net_device reference is released twice, underflowing
its refcount (ref_tracker WARNING + "unregister_netdevice: waiting for
<dev> to become free").
Clear xdst->u.dst.dev after the netdev_put(), the same way the XFRM
device-offload paths xfrm_dev_state_add() and xfrm_dev_policy_add() in
net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c NULL ->dev when releasing the reference on error.
ref_tracker: reference already released.
ref_tracker: allocated in:
xfrm6_fill_dst (net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:86)
...
udpv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/udp.c:1696)
...
ref_tracker: freed in:
xfrm6_fill_dst (net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c:90)
...
WARNING: lib/ref_tracker.c:322 at ref_tracker_free+0x58b/0x780
dst_destroy (net/core/dst.c:115)
rcu_core
handle_softirqs
...
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/136992de9bb91871084ae52d172610541c76e4d2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43de8a49335e611adb271bbd52e84dfbc11fc185 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97e032e5733e49471fb73de117ea2ac1ac7c479a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df6856c2dda9187601d29b5fbd7a81b3b178cedf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e078da1b4e11390cff3201c19a9a1fe70c5b934f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff636d7b7cba6dea82ecf580415ea57f2c1a11b6 git.kernel.org