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CVE-2026-98370

xfrm: fix compat ALLOCSPI request use-after-free PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: fix compat ALLOCSPI request use-after-free xfrm_state_netlink() builds the ALLOCSPI response with dump_one_state(), which already calls alloc_compat() with the response skb and header. xfrm_alloc_userspi() then calls alloc_compat() again, but passes the original request skb and its header. For a compat request, the translator therefore interprets the 228-byte compat xfrm_userspi_info as the 232-byte native layout and reads four bytes past the declared payload. It also publishes the translated child through the request's frag_list. A multicast clone of the request shares skb_shared_info and can observe that child. xfrm_user_rcv_msg() frees it after the request handler returns, racing a compat receiver which may still be copying from it and resulting in a use-after-free. Remove the redundant conversion. The response keeps its correct compat translation from dump_one_state(), and no child is attached to the inbound request.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 5f3eea6b7e8f58cf5c8a9d4b9679dc19e9e67ba3 before 494f2bee9d8d0ebcfa249ac41bed7fed26d119b4; affected 5f3eea6b7e8f58cf5c8a9d4b9679dc19e9e67ba3 before 17893987e52918c23945c42e47e894a936305a25; affected 5f3eea6b7e8f58cf5c8a9d4b9679dc19e9e67ba3 before 42971ea17c7a8afc0bdd5ca40648bf4e5bb7b810; affected 5f3eea6b7e8f58cf5c8a9d4b9679dc19e9e67ba3 before 2b63341e2ebc9b6f73cbd9214dbe7d46dd98c718; affected 5f3eea6b7e8f58cf5c8a9d4b9679dc19e9e67ba3 before bb63ab52a18273ec68340ac49aebbaa7b514ccd5; affected 5f3eea6b7e8f58cf5c8a9d4b9679dc19e9e67ba3 before 248433942155b42a0ef04a5806c8aca024ea7c33; affected 5f3eea6b7e8f58cf5c8a9d4b9679dc19e9e67ba3 before e70f639aee2ff0def155c256cace9e0f81d998e2; affected 5f3eea6b7e8f58cf5c8a9d4b9679dc19e9e67ba3 before d1ebd9081879fd9ae9c8fb7e8928f19cc88ae320
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.10; unaffected 0 before 5.10; unaffected 5.10.271 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.222 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.189 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.158 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.112 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.54 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.8 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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