clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-23413
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry Fix a use-after-free in the clsact qdisc upon init/destroy rollback asymmetry. The latter is achieved by first fully initializing a clsact instance, and then in a second step having a replacement failure for the new clsact qdisc instance. clsact_init() initializes ingress first and then takes care of the egress part. This can fail midway, for example, via tcf_block_get_ext(). Upon failure, the kernel will trigger the clsact_destroy() callback. Commit 1cb6f0bae504 ("bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry") details the way how the transition is happening. If tcf_block_get_ext on the q->ingress_block ends up failing, we took the tcx_miniq_inc reference count on the ingress side, but not yet on the egress side. clsact_destroy() tests whether the {ingress,egress}_entry was non-NULL. However, even in midway failure on the replacement, both are in fact non-NULL with a valid egress_entry from the previous clsact instance. What we really need to test for is whether the qdisc instance-specific ingress or egress side previously got initialized. This adds a small helper for checking the miniq initialization called mini_qdisc_pair_inited, and utilizes that upon clsact_destroy() in order to fix the use-after-free scenario. Convert the ingress_destroy() side as well so both are consistent to each other.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 230bb13650b0f186f540500fd5f5f7096a822a2a < a73d95b57bf9faebdfed591bcb7ed9292062a84c ; affected 1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e < 37bef86e5428d59f70a4da82b80f9a8f252fecbe ; affected 1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e < 4c9af67f99aa3e51b522c54968ab3ac8272be41c ; affected 1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e < 0509b762bc5e8ea7b8391130730c6d8502fc6e69 ; affected 1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e < a0671125d4f55e1e98d9bde8a0b671941987e208 ; affected f61ecf1bd5b562ebfd7d430ccb31619857e80857
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.10 ; unaffected 0 < 6.10 ; unaffected 6.6.130 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.78 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.20 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 6.19.10 ≤ 6.19.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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