CVE-2026-53239 (GCVE-0-2026-53239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 08:39 – Updated: 2026-06-28 06:40
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Title
xfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx() Fix the race by pruning the bin while still holding xfrm_policy_lock, before dropping it. Use __xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin() directly since the lock is already held. The wrapper xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin() becomes unused and is removed. Race: CPU0 (XFRM_MSG_DELPOLICY) CPU1 (XFRM_MSG_NEWSPDINFO) ========================== ========================== xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx(): spin_lock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock) bin = xfrm_policy_inexact_lookup() __xfrm_policy_unlink(pol) spin_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock) xfrm_policy_kill(ret) // wide window, lock not held xfrm_hash_rebuild(): spin_lock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock) __xfrm_policy_inexact_flush(): kfree_rcu(bin) // bin freed spin_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock) xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(bin) // UAF: bin is freed
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee , < 8fc536e9f6856230f19c7d13e71af064b6a77b22 (git)
Affected: 6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee , < c4c1ea36d83bf3c4569468ca5b8b614fda1bf821 (git)
Affected: 6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee , < 25c8c7fb3b0b9668c7d05e209f58c158d2b020c7 (git)
Affected: 6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee , < 42827d03f8009a6a218bacab153e21f39d6a121c (git)
Affected: 6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee , < 88697cf980222d5906a37bf47662dac0732e2a0f (git)
Affected: 6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee , < b5316e2b8614a87d8736941972441cb47bfd4491 (git)
Affected: 6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee , < ec82ea4eb220164d854f8734ca5a35e23e577b94 (git)
Affected: 6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee , < 7f2d76c9c03257c0782afef9d95321fa04096f60 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.259 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.210 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.176 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.143 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.94 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.36 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.13 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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