fou: Fix use-after-free in fou_create() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74496
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fou: Fix use-after-free in fou_create() fou_create() publishes struct fou through sk_user_data before adding the new FOU port to the per-netns list. If fou_add_to_port_list() fails, the error path frees fou while it is still reachable through sk_user_data. A concurrent receive can then dereference the freed object in fou_from_sock(). This ordering issue was previously noted in the linked discussion. The failure is reachable when local port 0 is requested. Each socket binds to a different ephemeral port, but fou_cfg_cmp() compares the requested port 0 and reports -EALREADY once an entry already exists. Release the tunnel socket before freeing fou so sk_user_data is cleared first, and defer reclamation with kfree_rcu() to protect concurrent RCU readers. This matches the lifetime handling in fou_release().

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 products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 < 0ee628a58d83e571f36ec9f07624d6845e420c50 ; affected 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 < a6fca682cfa2041e31aa72cc397c4a1406eb7468 ; affected 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 < b3f9c3e60aa25453774f899d25b5e61dd0bec1d5 ; affected 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 < 99f4d3120b244f92e5df787152041296a2860cb5 ; affected 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 < 58835985c035a8333742f829ad7e0889a082f9d3 ; affected 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 < 9042867d4701728f0c6527215b11471759904d8f
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.18 ; unaffected 0 < 3.18 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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