ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-68341
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.57 % · percentile 47 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn() unlock_ovpn() iterates over the release_list using llist_for_each_entry() and drops the peer reference inside the loop body via ovpn_peer_put(). If this drops the last reference, the peer is eventually freed. However, llist_for_each_entry() reads peer->release_entry.next in the loop advance expression, which runs after the body. By that time the peer may have already been freed, resulting in a use after free when advancing to the next list entry. Fix this by using llist_for_each_entry_safe(), which caches the next pointer before executing the loop body.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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 products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 < 5b96227c0e8b212b74838424c929fc889aedb555 ; affected 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 < 4cdb209f12a89c5faf9be0c45edb90ccdf65db0c ; affected 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 < e1ad6fe5db719874efa45b2caf9934552e09fc43
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.16 ; unaffected 0 < 6.16 ; unaffected 6.18.42 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.6 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

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