CVE-2026-31516: xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown A XFRM_MSG_NEWSPDINFO request can queue the per-net work item policy_hthresh.work onto the system workqueue. The queued callback, xfrm_hash_rebuild(), retrieves the enclosing struct net via container_of(). If the net namespace is torn down before that work runs, the associated struct net may already have been freed, and xfrm_hash_rebuild() may then dereference stale memory. xfrm_policy_fini() already flushes policy_hash_work during teardown, but it does not synchronize policy_hthresh.work. Synchronize policy_hthresh.work in xfrm_policy_fini() as well, so the queued work cannot outlive the net namespace teardown and access a freed struct net.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 56ea2257b83ee29a543f158159e3d1abc1e3e4fe (from 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c) · < 8854e9367465d784046362698731c1111e3b39b8 (from 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c) · < 4e2e77843fef473ef47e322d52436d8308582a96 (from 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c) · < 29fe3a61bcdce398ee3955101c39f89c01a8a77e (from 880a6fab8f6ba5b5abe59ea68533202ddea1012c)
- Linux / Linux3.18Fixed in 0, 6.12.80, 6.18.21, 6.19.11, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H