CVE-2026-46120

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46120
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-46120.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-46120
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Related
Published
2026-05-28T09:35:35Z
Modified
2026-10-08T02:49:22Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink().
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/46xxx/CVE-2026-46120.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09
Fixed
7bd0f2b162b426b343a114e1b329f0d8d14fdc6e
Fixed
01b71ff2857d3598337de11e7840a8e3ff21553c
Fixed
0fcf6731706f73494245a9c0d64f93bebf95bb51
Fixed
eca62bb0569de4d43a4dac06a2092a9d4ca1d702
Fixed
311fdd26eb4443d43b909cc67a10f3a5fd1b21b2
Fixed
e70cfb40c3a99b232cd42c6a6a10f0d8e039dc82
Fixed
cf7fc624329e76c6394653d12353e1d033adea91
Fixed
1d324c2f43f70c965f25c58cc3611c779adbe47e
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4.16.12
Fixed
4.17
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c6d72628352c949629af619b77b042e0fb5245e7

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.16.12
v4.16.13
v4.16.14
v4.16.15
v4.16.16
v4.16.17
v4.16.18

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-46120.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.17.0
Fixed
5.10.258
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.209
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.175
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.140
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.88
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.30
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.0.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-46120.json"