xfrm: use hlist_del_init_rcu for state_cache and state_cache_input (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98230
HIGH 7.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: use hlist_del_init_rcu for state_cache and state_cache_input Commit 14acf9652e56 ("xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete") converted bydst/bysrc/byseq/byspi from hlist_del_rcu() to hlist_del_init_rcu() so that a second __xfrm_state_delete() on the same object becomes a no-op rather than a write through LIST_POISON pprev. It missed state_cache and state_cache_input, which kept hlist_del_rcu(): - hlist_del_rcu() leaves pprev = LIST_POISON2 (non-NULL), so hlist_unhashed() returns false. - hlist_del_init_rcu() leaves pprev = NULL, so hlist_unhashed() returns true. A second __xfrm_state_delete() therefore enters __hlist_del() on the already-deleted state_cache/state_cache_input nodes and does WRITE_ONCE(*pprev, next) through LIST_POISON2 — a write use-after-free once the slab is reused. The corruption can in turn cause a subsequent hlist_for_each_entry_rcu traversal to follow a dangling next pointer, producing the read use-after-free reported in xfrm_input_state_lookup(). Switch state_cache and state_cache_input to hlist_del_init_rcu() to match the other four lists, closing the write use-after-free and, with it, the read use-after-free it spawns.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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 aa48a18fdb0911572d133057cd579db704b87da4 < fb38fb7420d5f7192f9e2b6ac835ede149cd7ac5 ; affected 0045e3d80613cc7174dc15f189ee6fc4e73b9365 < 4748c27e2e6a1969e02f1df46e62f79d2799b80b ; affected 0045e3d80613cc7174dc15f189ee6fc4e73b9365 < 9b74a47a4cbd0d29faff4f3b199212c73e6b6220 ; affected 0045e3d80613cc7174dc15f189ee6fc4e73b9365 < 2afb8dc1f4390f164db8352f8e685e126e9db566 ; affected 5e4334dc39443645415450163ff5ff1ee7e79784 ; affected 6.12.13 < 6.12.112
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.13 ; unaffected 0 < 6.13 ; unaffected 6.12.112 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.54 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.2.8 ≤ 7.2.* ; unaffected 7.3 ≤ *

Sources

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