CVE-2026-23322

HIGH

ipmi: Fix use-after-free and list corruption on sender error

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi: Fix use-after-free and list corruption on sender error The analysis from Breno: When the SMI sender returns an error, smi_work() delivers an error response but then jumps back to restart without cleaning up properly: 1. intf->curr_msg is not cleared, so no new message is pulled 2. newmsg still points to the message, causing sender() to be called again with the same message 3. If sender() fails again, deliver_err_response() is called with the same recv_msg that was already queued for delivery This causes list_add corruption ("list_add double add") because the recv_msg is added to the user_msgs list twice. Subsequently, the corrupted list leads to use-after-free when the memory is freed and reused, and eventually a NULL pointer dereference when accessing recv_msg->done. The buggy sequence: sender() fails -> deliver_err_response(recv_msg) // recv_msg queued for delivery -> goto restart // curr_msg not cleared! sender() fails again (same message!) -> deliver_err_response(recv_msg) // tries to queue same recv_msg -> LIST CORRUPTION Fix this by freeing the message and setting it to NULL on a send error. Also, always free the newmsg on a send error, otherwise it will leak.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 3.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel 6.18.0 - 6.18.17linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.18.17 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.7 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux 7.0-rc2
Linux/Linux 9cf93a8fa9513c6d3cc65bdd50e05c1355cef322 - 594c11d0e1d445f580898a2b8c850f2e3f099368
Linux/Linux 9cf93a8fa9513c6d3cc65bdd50e05c1355cef322 - 65ff5d1e4410df05edfbeb7bf2d62f7681ce1d53
... and 4 more
Published Mar 25, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 25, 2026