CVE-2026-31678 (GCVE-0-2026-31678)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-25 08:46 – Updated: 2026-04-27 14:04
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Title
openvswitch: defer tunnel netdev_put to RCU release
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openvswitch: defer tunnel netdev_put to RCU release ovs_netdev_tunnel_destroy() may run after NETDEV_UNREGISTER already detached the device. Dropping the netdev reference in destroy can race with concurrent readers that still observe vport->dev. Do not release vport->dev in ovs_netdev_tunnel_destroy(). Instead, let vport_netdev_free() drop the reference from the RCU callback, matching the non-tunnel destroy path and avoiding additional synchronization under RTNL.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: a9020fde67a6eb77f8130feff633189f99264db1 , < 9d56aced21fb9c104e8a3f3be9b21fbafe448ffc (git)
Affected: a9020fde67a6eb77f8130feff633189f99264db1 , < 42f0d3d81209654c08ffdde5a34b9b92d2645896 (git)
Affected: a9020fde67a6eb77f8130feff633189f99264db1 , < bbe7bd722bfaea36aab3da6cc60fb4a05c644643 (git)
Affected: a9020fde67a6eb77f8130feff633189f99264db1 , < 98b726ab5e2a4811e27c28e4d041f75bba147eab (git)
Affected: a9020fde67a6eb77f8130feff633189f99264db1 , < b8c56a3fc5d879c0928f207a756b0f067f06c6a8 (git)
Affected: a9020fde67a6eb77f8130feff633189f99264db1 , < 6931d21f87bc6d657f145798fad0bf077b82486c (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.168 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.131 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.80 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.21 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.11 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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