ipv4: igmp: Fix potential memory leaks in igmp_mod_timer() and igmp_stop_timer() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72321
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 12 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: igmp: Fix potential memory leaks in igmp_mod_timer() and igmp_stop_timer() When a timer is deleted and not re-armed in igmp_mod_timer(), or stopped in igmp_stop_timer(), the code currently decrements the reference counter of the multicast list entry @im using refcount_dec(&im->refcnt). However, both functions can be called from the RCU reader path: - igmp_mod_timer() via igmp_heard_query() -> for_each_pmc_rcu() - igmp_stop_timer() via igmp_rcv() -> igmp_heard_report() If the group im was concurrently removed from the list by ip_mc_dec_group(), its reference count might have already been decremented to 1. In this case, timer_delete() succeeds, and refcount_dec() decrements the refcount from 1 to 0. Since refcount_dec() does not free the object when it hits 0 (unlike ip_ma_put()), the im structure is leaked. Fix this by using ip_ma_put(im) instead of refcount_dec(&im->refcnt), and deferring the put until after the spinlock is released.

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Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < d4fe30f4671033a27fba077b3976dc113ffc0169 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 2d0effadf8d2cc9d006e4c4ab0ab6737aed28d77 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 40d6360ccf9bcbe17b5cb248a84e8e004aac2faa ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < f60ec3058a85447008b88b762c859d336163acb3 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 95128dc74425ec19ed4f2077ccc651e791ff4b75 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 3546deaa0c30a14c7cdb5dc8f2432cb428f0cd36
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.12 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.12 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.114 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.40 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

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