CVE-2026-31680

net: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Apr 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Mar 9, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499 to before 4b6798024f7b2d535f3db1002c760143cdbd1bd3Affected
  • d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499 to before 3c54b66c83fb8fcbde8e6a7bf90b65856e39f827Affected
  • d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499 to before 5a6b15f861b7c1304949e3350d23490a5fe429fdAffected
  • d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499 to before 6c7fbdb8ffde6413640de7cfbd7c976c353e89f8Affected
  • d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499 to before 8027964931785cb73d520ac70a342a3dc16c249bAffected
  • d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499 to before 414726b69921fe6355ae453f5b35e68dd078342aAffected
  • d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499 to before 572ce62778519a7d4d1c15f55dd2e45a474133c4Affected
  • d3aedd5ebd4b0b925b0bcda548066803e1318499 to before 9ca562bb8e66978b53028fa32b1a190708e6a091Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.9Affected
  • before 3.9Not affected
  • 5.10.253 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.203 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.168 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.134 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.81 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.22 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.12 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

References

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