genetlink: pin family module during policy dump (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-97901
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 12 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genetlink: pin family module during policy dump The generic netlink controller's policy dump keeps pointers to the target family's operation and policy tables in its callback state. A dump may be split across multiple skbs and remain pending after the initial request. Netlink pins the module which owns the dump callback, but in this case that is the controller's owner rather than the target family's owner. The target family can consequently be unregistered and its module unloaded while a policy dump is pending. Advancing the dump then dereferences policy memory from the unloaded module. Take a reference to the target family's module when the dump starts. Drop it from the error and done paths. This matches the lifetime for which the dump context retains the family and policy pointers.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected d07dcf9aadd6b2842b439e8668ff7ea2873f28d7 < 7ee2c0f82354da9bae04b14e0e5b2037d2de48a7 ; affected d07dcf9aadd6b2842b439e8668ff7ea2873f28d7 < 7f71414c206a0e2babf4ec2756c0d15776c5dfd2 ; affected d07dcf9aadd6b2842b439e8668ff7ea2873f28d7 < ad01ec35360e803670168d63a856629d6aeaec48 ; affected d07dcf9aadd6b2842b439e8668ff7ea2873f28d7 < 1a345d95e59a99e25404138b5a1ec2edcb03269f ; affected d07dcf9aadd6b2842b439e8668ff7ea2873f28d7 < 6e4d746e55c83c240cffce92356763d16b236af5 ; affected d07dcf9aadd6b2842b439e8668ff7ea2873f28d7 < 508387ad95ef9c13aa6431678c39763e882da2dc
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.8 ; unaffected 0 < 5.8 ; unaffected 5.10.273 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.224 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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