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FKIE_CVE-2026-31516

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-22 14:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:33

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown A XFRM_MSG_NEWSPDINFO request can queue the per-net work item policy_hthresh.work onto the system workqueue. The queued callback, xfrm_hash_rebuild(), retrieves the enclosing struct net via container_of(). If the net namespace is torn down before that work runs, the associated struct net may already have been freed, and xfrm_hash_rebuild() may then dereference stale memory. xfrm_policy_fini() already flushes policy_hash_work during teardown, but it does not synchronize policy_hthresh.work. Synchronize policy_hthresh.work in xfrm_policy_fini() as well, so the queued work cannot outlive the net namespace teardown and access a freed struct net.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29fe3a61bcdce398ee3955101c39f89c01a8a77e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e2e77843fef473ef47e322d52436d8308582a96	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56ea2257b83ee29a543f158159e3d1abc1e3e4fe	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8854e9367465d784046362698731c1111e3b39b8	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	3.18
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0

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CVE-2026-31516 (GCVE-0-2026-31516)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-22 13:54 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:23

Title

xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56ea2257b83ee29a5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8854e9367465d7840…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e2e77843fef473ef…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29fe3a61bcdce398e…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c , < 56ea2257b83ee29a543f158159e3d1abc1e3e4fe (git) Affected: 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c , < 8854e9367465d784046362698731c1111e3b39b8 (git) Affected: 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c , < 4e2e77843fef473ef47e322d52436d8308582a96 (git) Affected: 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c , < 29fe3a61bcdce398ee3955101c39f89c01a8a77e (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.80 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.21 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.11 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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