CVE-2026-46120

ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink().

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.8
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Undergoing Analysis

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink(). After commit 5e72ce3e3980 ("net: ipv6: Use link netns in newlink() of rtnl_link_ops"), ip6erspan_newlink() correctly resolves the per-netns ip6gre hash via link_net. ip6erspan_changelink() was not converted in that series and still uses dev_net(dev), which diverges from the device's creation netns after IFLA_NET_NS_FD migration. This re-inserts the tunnel into the wrong per-netns hash. The original netns keeps a stale entry. When that netns is later destroyed, ip6gre_exit_rtnl_net() walks the stale entry, producing a slab-use-after-free reported by KASAN, followed by a kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c (LIST_POISON1) in unregister_netdevice_many_notify(). Reachable from an unprivileged user namespace (unshare --user --map-root-user --net). ip6gre_changelink() earlier in the same file already uses the cached t->net; only ip6erspan_changelink() has the wrong shape.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 < 7bd0f2b162b426b343a114e1b329f0d8d14fdc6e ; affected 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 < 01b71ff2857d3598337de11e7840a8e3ff21553c ; affected 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 < 0fcf6731706f73494245a9c0d64f93bebf95bb51 ; affected 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 < eca62bb0569de4d43a4dac06a2092a9d4ca1d702 ; affected 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 < 311fdd26eb4443d43b909cc67a10f3a5fd1b21b2 ; affected 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 < e70cfb40c3a99b232cd42c6a6a10f0d8e039dc82
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.17 ; unaffected 0 < 4.17 ; unaffected 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.140 ≤ 6.6.*

References

Sources

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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD