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GHSA-C9J4-H9XP-P2MJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-19 18:31 – Updated: 2026-07-20 15:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: input: hold netns during deferred transport reinjection

Transport-mode reinjection stores a struct net pointer in skb->cb and uses it later from xfrm_trans_reinject(). That pointer must stay valid until the deferred callback runs.

Take a netns reference when queueing deferred reinjection work and drop it after the callback completes. Use maybe_get_net() so the queueing path does not revive a namespace that is already being torn down.

This keeps the existing workqueue design and fixes the netns lifetime handling in one place for all users of xfrm_trans_queue_net().

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

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CVE-2026-63919 (GCVE-0-2026-63919)

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

Title

xfrm: input: hold netns during deferred transport reinjection

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: input: hold netns during deferred transport reinjection Transport-mode reinjection stores a struct net pointer in skb->cb and uses it later from xfrm_trans_reinject(). That pointer must stay valid until the deferred callback runs. Take a netns reference when queueing deferred reinjection work and drop it after the callback completes. Use maybe_get_net() so the queueing path does not revive a namespace that is already being torn down. This keeps the existing workqueue design and fixes the netns lifetime handling in one place for all users of xfrm_trans_queue_net().

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

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ee59eda8820b758e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2df7059a18afb7d3a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dfabcba6a943a7a0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48ce101cd630d6745…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55ddfc41451f01c58…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f7ebb45a83afc321…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f67a36e91bb50d35…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c16f74dc1d75d0e2e…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7b3801927e52f8621de311277f7fc727635019e7 , < 7ee59eda8820b758ed29e1cd3222359c7b97302c (git) Affected: 7b3801927e52f8621de311277f7fc727635019e7 , < 2df7059a18afb7d3aee6c36cad5d371c198111d4 (git) Affected: 7b3801927e52f8621de311277f7fc727635019e7 , < 8dfabcba6a943a7a02ebe1e1637c361ba96acbaa (git) Affected: 7b3801927e52f8621de311277f7fc727635019e7 , < 48ce101cd630d6745b6923b5bad8358bc4c119da (git) Affected: 7b3801927e52f8621de311277f7fc727635019e7 , < 55ddfc41451f01c588089cd74957a05311b6f202 (git) Affected: 7b3801927e52f8621de311277f7fc727635019e7 , < 9f7ebb45a83afc3216e855e57d51bb4bc9b5232e (git) Affected: 7b3801927e52f8621de311277f7fc727635019e7 , < 9f67a36e91bb50d358760f381f233913fe5c09f8 (git) Affected: 7b3801927e52f8621de311277f7fc727635019e7 , < c16f74dc1d75d0e2e7670076d5375deda110ebeb (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.259 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.210 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.176 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.143 , ≤ 6.6.* (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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