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Tracker / CVE-2026-53239

CVE-2026-53239

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx() Fix the race by pruning the bin while still holding xfrm_policy_lock, before dropping it. Use __xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin() directly since the lock is already held. The wrapper xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin() becomes unused and is removed. Race: CPU0 (XFRM_MSG_DELPOLICY) CPU1 (XFRM_MSG_NEWSPDINFO) ========================== ========================== xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx(): spin_lock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock) bin = xfrm_policy_inexact_lookup() __xfrm_policy_unlink(pol) spin_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock) xfrm_policy_kill(ret) // wide window, lock not held xfrm_hash_rebuild(): spin_lock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock) __xfrm_policy_inexact_flush(): kfree_rcu(bin) // bin freed spin_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock) xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(bin) // UAF: bin is freed

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.0 → 5.10.259
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.210
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.176
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.36
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.13
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.143
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.94

Analysis

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