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GHSA-FG66-CP5R-9M26

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-20 18:32 – Updated: 2026-07-20 18:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: team: fix NULL pointer dereference in team_xmit during mode change

__team_change_mode() clears team->ops with memset() before restoring safe dummy handlers via team_adjust_ops(). A concurrent team_xmit() running under RCU on another CPU can read team->ops.transmit during this window and call a NULL function pointer, crashing the kernel.

The race requires a mode change (CAP_NET_ADMIN) concurrent with transmit on the team device.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI RIP: 0010:0x0 Call Trace: team_xmit (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1853) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3904) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4871) packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3109) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2265)

The original code assumed that no ports means no traffic, so mode changes could freely memset()/memcpy() the ops. AF_PACKET with forced carrier breaks that assumption.

Prevent the race instead of making it safe: replace memset()/memcpy() with per-field updates that never touch transmit or receive. Those two handlers are managed solely by team_adjust_ops(), which already installs dummies when tx_en_port_count == 0 (always true during mode change since no ports are present). WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE prevent store/load tearing on the handler pointers.

synchronize_net() before exit_op() drains in-flight readers that may still reference old mode state from before port removal switched the handlers to dummies.

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CVE-2026-64190 (GCVE-0-2026-64190)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-20 16:27 – Updated: 2026-07-20 16:27

Title

net: team: fix NULL pointer dereference in team_xmit during mode change

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: team: fix NULL pointer dereference in team_xmit during mode change __team_change_mode() clears team->ops with memset() before restoring safe dummy handlers via team_adjust_ops(). A concurrent team_xmit() running under RCU on another CPU can read team->ops.transmit during this window and call a NULL function pointer, crashing the kernel. The race requires a mode change (CAP_NET_ADMIN) concurrent with transmit on the team device. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI RIP: 0010:0x0 Call Trace: team_xmit (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1853) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3904) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4871) packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3109) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2265) The original code assumed that no ports means no traffic, so mode changes could freely memset()/memcpy() the ops. AF_PACKET with forced carrier breaks that assumption. Prevent the race instead of making it safe: replace memset()/memcpy() with per-field updates that never touch transmit or receive. Those two handlers are managed solely by team_adjust_ops(), which already installs dummies when tx_en_port_count == 0 (always true during mode change since no ports are present). WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE prevent store/load tearing on the handler pointers. synchronize_net() before exit_op() drains in-flight readers that may still reference old mode state from before port removal switched the handlers to dummies.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03e9405c518c4d61f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25fe708bbc59289d3…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 , < 03e9405c518c4d61f28079492f252d6d4e2bac5c (git) Affected: 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 , < 25fe708bbc59289d3d1ea4b126fbc1b460a072a5 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.3 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.3 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.35 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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