CVE-2026-45998

HIGH

rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure If skb_unshare() fails to unshare a packet due to allocation failure in rxrpc_input_packet(), the skb pointer in the parent (rxrpc_io_thread()) will be NULL'd out. This will likely cause the call to trace_rxrpc_rx_done() to oops. Fix this by moving the unsharing down to where rxrpc_input_call_event() calls rxrpc_input_call_packet(). There are a number of places prior to that where we ignore DATA packets for a variety of reasons (such as the call already being complete) for which an unshare is then avoided. And with that, rxrpc_input_packet() doesn't need to take a pointer to the pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.4%
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 (14)
Linux/Linux < 6.2
Linux/Linux 2d1faf7a0ca3c0b327cf064c80e4e775532c9319 - 1f2740150f904bfa60e4bad74d65add3ccb5e7f8
Linux/Linux 2d1faf7a0ca3c0b327cf064c80e4e775532c9319 - 8fde6296c4d4da2be7ab761305ab7f232b94eefd
Linux/Linux 2d1faf7a0ca3c0b327cf064c80e4e775532c9319 - 996b0487b3cdda4c91811dbb1c9564626bc840bd
Linux/Linux 2d1faf7a0ca3c0b327cf064c80e4e775532c9319 - bf20f46d94f1db38e6ffc0ca204a5fe0de01b495
Linux/Linux 2d1faf7a0ca3c0b327cf064c80e4e775532c9319 - e3bf143b1e98fb3d6d9e6825bcd683974d478e8c
Linux/Linux 6.12.86 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.27 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.2
Linux/Linux 6.6.140 - 6.6.*
... and 4 more
Published May 27, 2026
Tracked Since May 27, 2026