CVE-2026-23413

HIGH

clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry Fix a use-after-free in the clsact qdisc upon init/destroy rollback asymmetry. The latter is achieved by first fully initializing a clsact instance, and then in a second step having a replacement failure for the new clsact qdisc instance. clsact_init() initializes ingress first and then takes care of the egress part. This can fail midway, for example, via tcf_block_get_ext(). Upon failure, the kernel will trigger the clsact_destroy() callback. Commit 1cb6f0bae504 ("bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry") details the way how the transition is happening. If tcf_block_get_ext on the q->ingress_block ends up failing, we took the tcx_miniq_inc reference count on the ingress side, but not yet on the egress side. clsact_destroy() tests whether the {ingress,egress}_entry was non-NULL. However, even in midway failure on the replacement, both are in fact non-NULL with a valid egress_entry from the previous clsact instance. What we really need to test for is whether the qdisc instance-specific ingress or egress side previously got initialized. This adds a small helper for checking the miniq initialization called mini_qdisc_pair_inited, and utilizes that upon clsact_destroy() in order to fix the use-after-free scenario. Convert the ingress_destroy() side as well so both are consistent to each other.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
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 (17)
Linux/Linux < 6.10
Linux/Linux 1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e - 0509b762bc5e8ea7b8391130730c6d8502fc6e69
Linux/Linux 1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e - 37bef86e5428d59f70a4da82b80f9a8f252fecbe
Linux/Linux 1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e - 4c9af67f99aa3e51b522c54968ab3ac8272be41c
Linux/Linux 1cb6f0bae50441f4b4b32a28315853b279c7404e - a0671125d4f55e1e98d9bde8a0b671941987e208
Linux/Linux 230bb13650b0f186f540500fd5f5f7096a822a2a - a73d95b57bf9faebdfed591bcb7ed9292062a84c
Linux/Linux 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.12.78 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.20 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.10 - 6.19.*
... and 7 more
Published Apr 02, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 02, 2026