CVE-2026-23437

HIGH

net: shaper: protect late read accesses to the hierarchy

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: shaper: protect late read accesses to the hierarchy We look up a netdev during prep of Netlink ops (pre- callbacks) and take a ref to it. Then later in the body of the callback we take its lock or RCU which are the actual protections. This is not proper, a conversion from a ref to a locked netdev must include a liveness check (a check if the netdev hasn't been unregistered already). Fix the read cases (those under RCU). Writes needs a separate change to protect from creating the hierarchy after flush has already run.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 3.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb - 0f9ea7141f365b4f27226898e62220fb98ef8dc6
Linux/Linux 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb - 348758ba74e6a348299965b16a97cfb817545cc0
Linux/Linux 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb - 581eee0890a8bde44f1fb78ad3e70502a897d583
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.18.20 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.10 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux 7.0-rc5
linux/linux_kernel 6.13
... and 2 more
Published Apr 03, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 03, 2026