{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-45970", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-05-13T15:03:33.089Z", "datePublished": "2026-05-27T12:18:29.878Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:28:58.557Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:28:58.557Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down\n\nThe ALB RX path may access rx_hashtbl concurrently with bond\nteardown. During rapid bond up/down cycles, rlb_deinitialize()\nfrees rx_hashtbl while RX handlers are still running, leading\nto a null pointer dereference detected by KASAN.\n\nHowever, the root cause is that rlb_arp_recv() can still be accessed\nafter setting recv_probe to NULL, which is actually a use-after-free\n(UAF) issue. That is the reason for using the referenced commit in the\nFixes tag.\n\n[ 214.174138] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000001d: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\n[ 214.186478] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000e8-0x00000000000000ef]\n[ 214.194933] CPU: 30 UID: 0 PID: 2375 Comm: ping Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-rc8+ #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[ 214.205907] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0WCJNT, BIOS 2.14.0 01/14/2022\n[ 214.214357] RIP: 0010:rlb_arp_recv+0x505/0xab0 [bonding]\n[ 214.220320] Code: 0f 85 2b 05 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 40 0f b6 ed 48 c1 e5 06 49 03 ad 78 01 00 00 48 8d 7d 28 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6\n 04 02 84 c0 74 06 0f 8e 12 05 00 00 80 7d 28 00 0f 84 8c 00\n[ 214.241280] RSP: 0018:ffffc900073d8870 EFLAGS: 00010206\n[ 214.247116] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888168556822 RCX: ffff88816855681e\n[ 214.255082] RDX: 000000000000001d RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: 00000000000000e8\n[ 214.263048] RBP: 00000000000000c0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffffed11192021c8\n[ 214.271013] R10: ffff8888c9010e43 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 1ffff92000e7b119\n[ 214.278978] R13: ffff8888c9010e00 R14: ffff888168556822 R15: ffff888168556810\n[ 214.286943] FS: 00007f85d2d9cb80(0000) GS:ffff88886ccb3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 214.295966] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 214.302380] CR2: 00007f0d047b5e34 CR3: 00000008a1c2e002 CR4: 00000000001726f0\n[ 214.310347] Call Trace:\n[ 214.313070] \n[ 214.315318] ? __pfx_rlb_arp_recv+0x10/0x10 [bonding]\n[ 214.320975] bond_handle_frame+0x166/0xb60 [bonding]\n[ 214.326537] ? __pfx_bond_handle_frame+0x10/0x10 [bonding]\n[ 214.332680] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x576/0x2710\n[ 214.339199] ? __pfx_arp_process+0x10/0x10\n[ 214.343775] ? sched_balance_find_src_group+0x98/0x630\n[ 214.349513] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x10/0x10\n[ 214.356513] ? arp_rcv+0x307/0x690\n[ 214.360311] ? __pfx_arp_rcv+0x10/0x10\n[ 214.364499] ? __lock_acquire+0x58c/0xbd0\n[ 214.368975] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xae/0x1b0\n[ 214.374518] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x10/0x10\n[ 214.380743] ? lock_acquire+0x10b/0x140\n[ 214.385026] process_backlog+0x3f1/0x13a0\n[ 214.389502] ? process_backlog+0x3aa/0x13a0\n[ 214.394174] __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x9f/0x370\n[ 214.399233] net_rx_action+0x8c1/0xe60\n[ 214.403423] ? __pfx_net_rx_action+0x10/0x10\n[ 214.408193] ? lock_acquire.part.0+0xbd/0x260\n[ 214.413058] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x6c/0x540\n[ 214.417540] ? mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70\n[ 214.421920] handle_softirqs+0x1fd/0x860\n[ 214.426302] ? __pfx_handle_softirqs+0x10/0x10\n[ 214.431264] ? __neigh_event_send+0x2d6/0xf50\n[ 214.436131] do_softirq+0xb1/0xf0\n[ 214.439830] \n\nThe issue is reproducible by repeatedly running\nip link set bond0 up/down while receiving ARP messages, where\nrlb_arp_recv() can race with rlb_deinitialize() and dereference\na freed rx_hashtbl entry.\n\nFix this by setting recv_probe to NULL and then calling\nsynchronize_net() to wait for any concurrent RX processing to finish.\nThis ensures that no RX handler can access rx_hashtbl after it is freed\nin bond_alb_deinitialize()." } ], "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 vulnerable code is reached via a received ARP frame on a bond slave; an unprivileged local user can reproduce the entire scenario inside a user namespace (`unshare -Urn`) by creating a balance-alb bond over veths, injecting ARP locally, and cycling the bond up/down, so no network/adjacent position is required.\nAC:L - In the user-namespace scenario the attacker controls both sides of the race — the ARP injection (RX side) and the bond up/down cycling (free side) — and the upstream report confirms it is readily reproducible by repeated cycling, so the race can be won reliably.\nPR:L - Triggering the free requires CAP_NET_ADMIN on the bond, but this is obtainable by any unprivileged user via a user+network namespace (which also grants CAP_NET_RAW for ARP injection), so only basic local user privileges are needed.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is required; the attacker drives both the packet receipt and the bond teardown themselves.\nS:U - The vulnerability and its impact are confined to the kernel's own security authority; there is no crossing of a VM/IOMMU/sandbox boundary.\nC:H - The UAF reads the contents of the freed `rx_hashtbl` object (after potential reallocation), which can be leveraged to disclose attacker-influenced or adjacent kernel heap data.\nI:H - The UAF writes into the freed/reallocated object, including copying 6 attacker-controlled bytes (the ARP source MAC) and link-pointer updates, providing a write primitive into reclaimed heap memory exploitable for control-flow corruption.\nA:H - The bug causes a KASAN-detected general protection fault / kernel oops (as shown in the report), reliably crashing the kernel." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0", "lessThan": "fd54ddc929be1d6c3b3b7b35d6d4642a5d9e803c", "status": 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