CVE-2026-72127

netdev-genl: report NAPI thread PID in the caller's pid namespace

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

netdev-genl: report NAPI thread PID in the caller's pid namespace

netdev_nl_napi_fill_one() reports the NAPI kthread PID in NETDEV_A_NAPI_PID using task_pid_nr(), which returns the PID in the initial pid namespace.

NETDEV_CMD_NAPI_GET does not have GENL_ADMIN_PERM and the netdev genl family is netnsok, so a caller in a child pid namespace can issue it. That caller then sees the kthread's global PID, even though the kthread is not visible in its pid namespace, where the value should be 0.

Translate the PID through the caller's pid namespace, the same way commit 3799c2570982 ("io_uring/fdinfo: translate SqThread PID through caller's pid_ns") did for the io_uring SQPOLL thread. The doit and dumpit paths both run synchronously in the caller's context, so task_active_pid_ns(current) is the caller's pid namespace.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • db4704f4e4dfce835e934609fca735a648ce26e8 to before fb18095389fe81f140d39585a2624aca9d42227eAffected
  • db4704f4e4dfce835e934609fca735a648ce26e8 to before 5e4c8e08ce95730c87d6ada0bdbe1131a3c06393Affected
  • db4704f4e4dfce835e934609fca735a648ce26e8 to before fd750b694f1f9e1ecb8ca19314e4e21edbb15f42Affected
  • db4704f4e4dfce835e934609fca735a648ce26e8 to before 1f24c0d01db214c9e661915e9972404c96ca73c0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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