Cloudanix VulnDB

CVE-2026-23413

High · 7.8

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

0.1%

Published

Apr 2, 2026

CISA due date

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The record

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.

Affected packages

Ecosystem Package Introduced Fixed
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 dtb-aarch64 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-64kb 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-azure 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-default 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 0 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-docs 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-kvmsmall 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-obs-build 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-obs-qa 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-rt 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-source 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-syms 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0 kernel-zfcpdump 0 6.12.0-160000.28.1

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