CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72405
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- 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: udp_tunnel: prevent double queueing in udp_tunnel_nic_device_sync
Yue Sun reported a use-after-free and debugobjects warning in
udp_tunnel_nic_device_sync_work() during concurrent device operations.
The workqueue core clears the internal pending bit before invoking the
worker. At that point, a concurrent thread can queue the work again.
When the already running worker eventually clears the work_pending flag
to 0, it mistakenly clears the flag for the newly queued instance.
udp_tunnel_nic_unregister() then observes work_pending as 0 and frees
the structure while the second work item is still active in the queue,
leading to UAF.
Fix this by returning early in udp_tunnel_nic_device_sync() if
work_pending is already set, preventing redundant work queueing.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54292b167466cdf42176b7b6f01da66c184deb12 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9075efb9b2c1d9d7a8285c937b64aa93ca0c41b7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cee6688e5731c0591643521716d1a1a5c1a98bf8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf69d4b43370c587e48d4d70289dbdb7e039d4d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f49ed02fd8c98da823fdd7b00d64a8cc1d1883ac git.kernel.org