CVE-2026-74496 (GCVE-0-2026-74496)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:27 – Updated: 2026-09-21 13:14
VLAI
Title
fou: Fix use-after-free in fou_create()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fou: Fix use-after-free in fou_create() fou_create() publishes struct fou through sk_user_data before adding the new FOU port to the per-netns list. If fou_add_to_port_list() fails, the error path frees fou while it is still reachable through sk_user_data. A concurrent receive can then dereference the freed object in fou_from_sock(). This ordering issue was previously noted in the linked discussion. The failure is reachable when local port 0 is requested. Each socket binds to a different ephemeral port, but fou_cfg_cmp() compares the requested port 0 and reports -EALREADY once an entry already exists. Release the tunnel socket before freeing fou so sk_user_data is cleared first, and defer reclamation with kfree_rcu() to protect concurrent RCU readers. This matches the lifetime handling in fou_release().
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 , < 58835985c035a8333742f829ad7e0889a082f9d3 (git)
Affected: 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 , < 9042867d4701728f0c6527215b11471759904d8f (git)
Affected: 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 , < a28d8903bfe76089ea4bbdbff9976965f9ef8107 (git)
Affected: 23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63 , < b14361aca6350ff7907b0e9903c7b94dc7d5d4a0 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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