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FKIE_CVE-2026-68341

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-10 13:20 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:17

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn() unlock_ovpn() iterates over the release_list using llist_for_each_entry() and drops the peer reference inside the loop body via ovpn_peer_put(). If this drops the last reference, the peer is eventually freed. However, llist_for_each_entry() reads peer->release_entry.next in the loop advance expression, which runs after the body. By that time the peer may have already been freed, resulting in a use after free when advancing to the next list entry. Fix this by using llist_for_each_entry_safe(), which caches the next pointer before executing the loop body.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cdb209f12a89c5faf9be0c45edb90ccdf65db0c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b96227c0e8b212b74838424c929fc889aedb555
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1ad6fe5db719874efa45b2caf9934552e09fc43

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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            "drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c"
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    }
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  "lastModified": "2026-08-17T06:17:42.307",
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CVE-2026-68341 (GCVE-0-2026-68341)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:03 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:03

Title

ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn()

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b96227c0e8b212b7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cdb209f12a89c5fa…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1ad6fe5db719874e…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 , < 5b96227c0e8b212b74838424c929fc889aedb555 (git) Affected: 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 , < 4cdb209f12a89c5faf9be0c45edb90ccdf65db0c (git) Affected: 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 , < e1ad6fe5db719874efa45b2caf9934552e09fc43 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-68341 (GCVE-0-2026-68341)

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