CVE-2026-31680: net: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown `ip6fl_seq_show()` walks the global flowlabel hash under the seq-file RCU read-side lock and prints `fl->opt->opt_nflen` when an option block is present. Exclusive flowlabels currently free `fl->opt` as soon as `fl->users` drops to zero in `fl_release()`. However, the surrounding `struct ip6_flowlabel` remains visible in the global hash table until later garbage collection removes it and `fl_free_rcu()` finally tears it down. A concurrent `/proc/net/ip6_flowlabel` reader can therefore race that early `kfree()` and dereference freed option state, triggering a crash in `ip6fl_seq_show()`. Fix this by keeping `fl->opt` alive until `fl_free_rcu()`. That matches the lifetime already required for the enclosing flowlabel while readers can still reach it under RCU.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 4b6798024f7b2d535f3db1002c760143cdbd1bd3 (from d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499) · < 3c54b66c83fb8fcbde8e6a7bf90b65856e39f827 (from d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499) · < 5a6b15f861b7c1304949e3350d23490a5fe429fd (from d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499) · < 6c7fbdb8ffde6413640de7cfbd7c976c353e89f8 (from d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499) · < 8027964931785cb73d520ac70a342a3dc16c249b (from d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499) · < 414726b69921fe6355ae453f5b35e68dd078342a (from d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499)
- Linux / Linux3.9Fixed in 0, 5.10.253, 5.15.203, 6.1.168, 6.6.134, 6.12.81, 6.18.22, 6.19.12, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H