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the NF_HOOK call in transport_finish,\nusing a saved device pointer since NF_HOOK may consume the skb.\nThis covers NF_DROP, NF_QUEUE and NF_STOLEN paths that skip\nthe okfn.\n\nFor non-transport exits (decaps, gro, drop) and secondary\nasync return points, release the reference inline when\nasync is set." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The complete attacker-controlled path requires a local unprivileged user to create a user/net namespace, configure transport-mode XFRM state, send traffic, and tear down the namespace/device in parallel.\nAC:L - The race is attacker-controlled in the user-namespace scenario: the attacker controls packet injection and device/netns teardown and can repeat the sequence reliably.\nPR:L - XFRM and rtnetlink setup require CAP_NET_ADMIN, but these checks are against the network namespace user_ns and are reachable after unshare -Urn by an unprivileged local user.\nUI:N - No victim action is required once the attacker can run local code and create the namespace setup.\nS:U - The vulnerable component and impacted resource are the kernel itself; this is a standard kernel memory-safety issue rather than a VM or hardware boundary escape.\nC:H - This is a net_device use-after-free, and freed kernel heap objects can potentially be reclaimed and abused for kernel memory disclosure.\nI:H - Use-after-free in kernel networking code can potentially be shaped into control-flow or data-structure corruption, so high integrity impact is appropriate.\nA:H - The issue was reproduced as a KASAN slab-use-after-free in the async XFRM reinject path and can crash the kernel." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ 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