CVE-2026-45929

ovpn: fix possible use-after-free in ovpn_net_xmit

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

ovpn: fix possible use-after-free in ovpn_net_xmit

When building the skb_list in ovpn_net_xmit, skb_share_check will free the original skb if it is shared. The current implementation continues to use the stale skb pointer for subsequent operations: - peer lookup, - skb_dst_drop (even though all segments produced by skb_gso_segment will have a dst attached), - ovpn_peer_stats_increment_tx.

Fix this by moving the peer lookup and skb_dst_drop before segmentation so that the original skb is still valid when used. Return early if all segments fail skb_share_check and the list ends up empty. Also switch ovpn_peer_stats_increment_tx to use skb_list.next; the next patch fixes the stats logic.

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

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301 to before 3e4fbcb4e078915367ba5576cd70d76dbc970f95Affected
  • 08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301 to before 442915c96a9bff1c7080e2aedabb1c03faa28d81Affected
  • 08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301 to before a5ec7baa44ea3a1d6aa0ca31c0ad82edf9affe41Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.14 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.4 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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