xfrm: Fix dev use-after-free in xfrm async resumption (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72463
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.44 % · percentile 39 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: Fix dev use-after-free in xfrm async resumption xfrm async resumption hold skb->dev refcnt until after transport_finish. However, xfrm_rcv_cb may modify skb->dev to tunnel dev without taking device reference, such as vti_rcv_cb. The subsequent async resumption will decrement the tunnel device's reference count, which lead to uaf of tunnel dev and refcnt leak of orig dev as below: unregister_netdevice: waiting for vti1 to become free. Usage count = -2 Stash the original skb->dev to fix refcnt imbalance. The new skb->dev set by xfrm_rcv_cb can race with device teardown. Extend rcu protection over xfrm_rcv_cb and transport_finish to prevent races.

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Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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 4236c30b437b80f673b9e08c8fae38b8d471ac9e < fed4d3195a31125566876952ce66113ec1eb9008 ; affected 0f451b43c88bf2b9c038b414be580efee42e031b < 1acd93259b6be269e26be5d71c224bccd1f8352f ; affected 1c428b03840094410c5fb6a5db30640486bbbfcb < 63a30015199912bd5055bead8001b1ae68a67cdb ; affected 1c428b03840094410c5fb6a5db30640486bbbfcb < 8045c0df98d4f14c54e5cb875f1c9c0ce89fe4ff ; affected 4d06caedea587c59cc2cc893ceecc57c75c64312 ; affected 94439cbe478b53f92223da9aae95fffb28623c3f
Linux · Linuxaffected 7.0 ; unaffected 0 < 7.0 ; unaffected 6.12.112 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.54 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.5 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

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