CVE-2026-68341

ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn()

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Aug 10, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 30, 2026

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Description

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

ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn()

unlock_ovpn() iterates over the release_list using llist_for_each_entry() and drops the peer reference inside the loop body via ovpn_peer_put().

If this drops the last reference, the peer is eventually freed. However, llist_for_each_entry() reads peer->release_entry.next in the loop advance expression, which runs after the body. By that time the peer may have already been freed, resulting in a use after free when advancing to the next list entry.

Fix this by using llist_for_each_entry_safe(), which caches the next pointer before executing the loop body.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 to before 5b96227c0e8b212b74838424c929fc889aedb555Affected
  • 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 to before 4cdb209f12a89c5faf9be0c45edb90ccdf65db0cAffected
  • 80747caef33d77f5c1b3d24644e6d7dae69066b5 to before e1ad6fe5db719874efa45b2caf9934552e09fc43Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.6 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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