xfrm: Fix work re-schedule after cancel in xfrm_nat_keepalive_net_fini() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31406
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: Fix work re-schedule after cancel in xfrm_nat_keepalive_net_fini() After cancel_delayed_work_sync() is called from xfrm_nat_keepalive_net_fini(), xfrm_state_fini() flushes remaining states via __xfrm_state_delete(), which calls xfrm_nat_keepalive_state_updated() to re-schedule nat_keepalive_work. The following is a simple race scenario: cpu0 cpu1 cleanup_net() [Round 1] ops_undo_list() xfrm_net_exit() xfrm_nat_keepalive_net_fini() cancel_delayed_work_sync(nat_keepalive_work); xfrm_state_fini() xfrm_state_flush() xfrm_state_delete(x) __xfrm_state_delete(x) xfrm_nat_keepalive_state_updated(x) schedule_delayed_work(nat_keepalive_work); rcu_barrier(); net_complete_free(); net_passive_dec(net); llist_add(&net->defer_free_list, &defer_free_list); cleanup_net() [Round 2] rcu_barrier(); net_complete_free() kmem_cache_free(net_cachep, net); nat_keepalive_work() // on freed net To prevent this, cancel_delayed_work_sync() is replaced with disable_delayed_work_sync().

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)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae < 32d0f44c2f14d60fe8e920e69a28c11051543ec1 ; affected f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae < 2255ed6adbc3100d2c4a83abd9d0396d04b87792 ; affected f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae < 21f2fc49ca6faa393c31da33b8a4e6c41fc84c13 ; affected f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae < daf8e3b253aa760ff9e96c7768a464bc1d6b3c90
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.11 ; unaffected 0 < 6.11 ; unaffected 6.12.80 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.21 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 6.19.11 ≤ 6.19.* ; unaffected 7.0 ≤ *

Sources

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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD