CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74255
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg()
Syzbot reported a slab-use-after-free in ipvlan_hard_header() when
called from tipc_l2_send_msg().
The root cause is that tipc_disable_l2_media() calls synchronize_net()
while b->media_ptr is still valid. This allows concurrent RCU readers
to obtain the device pointer after synchronize_net() has finished.
The pointer is cleared later in bearer_disable(), but without any
subsequent synchronization, allowing the device to be freed while
still in use by readers.
Fix this by clearing b->media_ptr in tipc_disable_l2_media() before
calling synchronize_net().
This is safe to do now because the call order in bearer_disable()
was reversed in 0d051bf93c06 ("tipc: make bearer packet filtering generic")
to call tipc_node_delete_links() (which needs the pointer) before
disable_media().
https: //lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/T/#u
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d8a12d7143126afdf9fbe2e3d438650dd6603ed git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35e0297a93c3c34a3924eeef816c03504e3ab5c5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50ff092633b06382e5091dd5b093ce943d4ac2f9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/609ced2301be1df7e7ed2ef47d1d916674e6ba3b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71aafa16d79b107b33837f60b6cbc7d0cb8c5708 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aef12b5ce793dea6b3a97a58fd0f946000ae8945 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4002f1c669cc02e3763f479fc25ff1dfa9e2420 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4c3d89fc986b0da196ddfc6cfe0ea5d5d08bec6 git.kernel.org