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CVE-2026-43481

net-shapers: don't free reply skb after genlmsg_reply() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net-shapers: don't free reply skb after genlmsg_reply() genlmsg_reply() hands the reply skb to netlink, and netlink_unicast() consumes it on all return paths, whether the skb is queued successfully or freed on an error path. net_shaper_nl_get_doit() and net_shaper_nl_cap_get_doit() currently jump to free_msg after genlmsg_reply() fails and call nlmsg_free(msg), which can hit the same skb twice. Return the genlmsg_reply() error directly and keep free_msg only for pre-reply failures.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb before 8738dcc844fff7d0157ee775230e95df3b1884d7; affected 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb before 83f7b54242d0abbfce35a55c01322f50962ed3ee; affected 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb before 57885276cc16a2e2b76282c808a4e84cbecb3aae
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.13; unaffected 0 before 6.13; unaffected 6.18.19 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.9 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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