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BDU:2026-14348 (CVE-2026-63918)

Vulnerability from fstec – Published: 2026-09-09 – Updated: 2026-09-09 – View on bdu.fstec.ru Fixed

Title

Уязвимость функции l2tp_session_get_by_ifname() модуля net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c реализации протокола туннелирования второго уровня (L2TP) ядра операционной системы Linux, позволяющая нарушителю оказать воздействие на конфиденциальность, целостность и доступность защищаемой информации

Summary

Уязвимость функции l2tp_session_get_by_ifname() модуля net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c реализации протокола туннелирования второго уровня (L2TP) ядра операционной системы Linux связана с ошибками при обновлении счетчика ссылок. Эксплуатация уязвимости может позволить нарушителю оказать воздействие на конфиденциальность, целостность и доступность защищаемой информации

Severity

6.8 (Medium) CVSS 2.0


                      
                        AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

7.8 (High) CVSS 3.1


                      
                        CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Class

Code vulnerability

Status

Confirmed by the vendor

Exploitation

Data structure manipulation

Incidents

Being clarified

Remediation

Software update

CWE

CWE-911 - Неправильное обновление счетчика ссылок

Aliases

CVE-2026-63918

References

9 references

URL
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63918
https://git.kernel.org/linus/05f95729ca844704d15e49ce14868af4b403b32b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee80455feffb9cb62b5b58715cabeff495e666b2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/947013fd7c8c35dd5856557b215840098a3f67f8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/782d60a6596aee9b29c2eecfa70033899278bf65
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-63918
https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/tracker/CVE-2026-63918
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-63918
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-63918

Impacted products

4 products from 4 vendors

Vendors

Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, Canonical Ltd., Red Hat, Inc.

Products

Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux

Versions

9 (Debian GNU/Linux), 10 (Debian GNU/Linux), 24.04 LTS (Ubuntu), 10 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), 13 (Debian GNU/Linux), 26.04 LTS (Ubuntu), от 6.19 до 7.0.11 включительно (Linux), от 6.13 до 6.18.34 включительно (Linux), от 6.12 до 6.12.92 включительно (Linux)

Product types

Operating system

Platforms

Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux 9, Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux 10, Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux 13, Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Linux от 6.19 до 7.0.11 включительно, Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Linux от 6.13 до 6.18.34 включительно, Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Linux от 6.12 до 6.12.92 включительно

Mitigations

В условиях отсутствия обновлений безопасности от производителя рекомендуется придерживаться "Рекомендаций по безопасной настройке операционных систем LINUX", изложенных в методическом документе ФСТЭК России, утверждённом 25 декабря 2022 года. Использование рекомендаций: Для Linux: https://git.kernel.org/linus/05f95729ca844704d15e49ce14868af4b403b32b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee80455feffb9cb62b5b58715cabeff495e666b2 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/947013fd7c8c35dd5856557b215840098a3f67f8 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/782d60a6596aee9b29c2eecfa70033899278bf65 Для Debian GNU/Linux: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-63918 https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/tracker/CVE-2026-63918 Для программных продуктов Red Hat, Inc.: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-63918 Для Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-63918

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  "CVSS 3.0": "AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
  "CVSS 4.0": null,
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  "\u041e\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043e\u0448\u0438\u0431\u043a\u0438 CWE": "\u041d\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0441\u0447\u0435\u0442\u0447\u0438\u043a\u0430 \u0441\u0441\u044b\u043b\u043e\u043a (CWE-911)",
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  "\u0421\u043f\u043e\u0441\u043e\u0431 \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f": "\u041e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043e\u0431\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f",
  "\u0421\u043f\u043e\u0441\u043e\u0431 \u044d\u043a\u0441\u043f\u043b\u0443\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438": "\u041c\u0430\u043d\u0438\u043f\u0443\u043b\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0443\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u0434\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445",
  "\u0421\u0441\u044b\u043b\u043a\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0438": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63918\nhttps://git.kernel.org/linus/05f95729ca844704d15e49ce14868af4b403b32b\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee80455feffb9cb62b5b58715cabeff495e666b2\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/947013fd7c8c35dd5856557b215840098a3f67f8\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/782d60a6596aee9b29c2eecfa70033899278bf65\nhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-63918\nhttps://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/tracker/CVE-2026-63918\nhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-63918\nhttps://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-63918",
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  "\u0422\u0438\u043f \u043e\u0448\u0438\u0431\u043a\u0438 CWE": "CWE-911",
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CVE-2026-63918 (GCVE-0-2026-63918)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 14:55 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:37

Title

l2tp: use refcount_inc_not_zero in l2tp_session_get_by_ifname

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: l2tp: use refcount_inc_not_zero in l2tp_session_get_by_ifname A reader in l2tp_session_get_by_ifname() can return a pointer to a session whose refcount has reached zero. The getter takes its reference with plain refcount_inc(), but every other session getter in the same file (l2tp_v2_session_get, l2tp_v3_session_get, and the corresponding _get_next variants) uses refcount_inc_not_zero() because the IDR/RCU lookup can race with refcount_dec_and_test() -> l2tp_session_free() -> kfree_rcu(). The ifname getter is the only outlier; the inconsistency was raised on-list after 979c017803c4 ("l2tp: use list_del_rcu in l2tp_session_unhash"). A reader inside rcu_read_lock_bh() that matches session->ifname can be preempted between the strcmp() and the refcount_inc(). If the last reference drops on another CPU in that window, the reader's refcount_inc() runs on a counter that has reached zero. refcount_t catches the addition-on-zero, prints "refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free", saturates the counter, and returns the saturated pointer to the caller. Session memory is held live by the in-flight RCU read section, but the kfree_rcu() callback queued from l2tp_session_free() will free it once the grace period closes; a caller that dereferences the returned session past that point hits a slab-use-after-free. On PREEMPT_RT local_bh_disable() is a per-CPU sleeping lock and the preemption window is real; on stock PREEMPT kernels local_bh_disable() is a preempt_count increment that closes the cross-CPU race in practice (see below). Use refcount_inc_not_zero() and continue the list walk on failure, matching the other session getters in the file. The ifname getter is the only session getter in net/l2tp/ that still uses the bare refcount_inc() pattern; this change restores file-internal consistency. The success path is unchanged.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee80455feffb9cb62…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/947013fd7c8c35dd5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/782d60a6596aee9b2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05f95729ca844704d…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: abe7a1a7d0b69e63b1bca5f9531023a52336784f , < ee80455feffb9cb62b5b58715cabeff495e666b2 (git) Affected: abe7a1a7d0b69e63b1bca5f9531023a52336784f , < 947013fd7c8c35dd5856557b215840098a3f67f8 (git) Affected: abe7a1a7d0b69e63b1bca5f9531023a52336784f , < 782d60a6596aee9b29c2eecfa70033899278bf65 (git) Affected: abe7a1a7d0b69e63b1bca5f9531023a52336784f , < 05f95729ca844704d15e49ce14868af4b403b32b (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.93 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.35 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.12 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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BDU:2026-14348 (CVE-2026-63918)

CVE-2026-63918 (GCVE-0-2026-63918)

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