CVE-2026-46120 (GCVE-0-2026-46120)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 09:35 – Updated: 2026-06-14 17:55
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Title
ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink().
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink(). After commit 5e72ce3e3980 ("net: ipv6: Use link netns in newlink() of rtnl_link_ops"), ip6erspan_newlink() correctly resolves the per-netns ip6gre hash via link_net. ip6erspan_changelink() was not converted in that series and still uses dev_net(dev), which diverges from the device's creation netns after IFLA_NET_NS_FD migration. This re-inserts the tunnel into the wrong per-netns hash. The original netns keeps a stale entry. When that netns is later destroyed, ip6gre_exit_rtnl_net() walks the stale entry, producing a slab-use-after-free reported by KASAN, followed by a kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c (LIST_POISON1) in unregister_netdevice_many_notify(). Reachable from an unprivileged user namespace (unshare --user --map-root-user --net). ip6gre_changelink() earlier in the same file already uses the cached t->net; only ip6erspan_changelink() has the wrong shape.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 , < 7bd0f2b162b426b343a114e1b329f0d8d14fdc6e (git)
Affected: 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 , < 01b71ff2857d3598337de11e7840a8e3ff21553c (git)
Affected: 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 , < 0fcf6731706f73494245a9c0d64f93bebf95bb51 (git)
Affected: 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 , < eca62bb0569de4d43a4dac06a2092a9d4ca1d702 (git)
Affected: 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 , < 311fdd26eb4443d43b909cc67a10f3a5fd1b21b2 (git)
Affected: 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 , < e70cfb40c3a99b232cd42c6a6a10f0d8e039dc82 (git)
Affected: 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 , < cf7fc624329e76c6394653d12353e1d033adea91 (git)
Affected: 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 , < 1d324c2f43f70c965f25c58cc3611c779adbe47e (git)
Affected: c6d72628352c949629af619b77b042e0fb5245e7 (git)
Affected: 4.16.12 , < 4.17 (semver)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.258 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.88 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.30 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.7 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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