CVE-2026-45970

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-45970

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down

The ALB RX path may access rx_hashtbl concurrently with bond

teardown. During rapid bond up/down cycles, rlb_deinitialize()

frees rx_hashtbl while RX handlers are still running, leading

to a null pointer dereference detected by KASAN.

However, the root cause is that rlb_arp_recv() can still be accessed

after setting recv_probe to NULL, which is actually a use-after-free

(UAF) issue. That is the reason for using the referenced commit in the

Fixes tag.

[ 214.174138] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000001d: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI

[ 214.186478] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000e8-0x00000000000000ef]

[ 214.194933] CPU: 30 UID: 0 PID: 2375 Comm: ping Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-rc8+ #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)

[ 214.205907] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0WCJNT, BIOS 2.14.0 01/14/2022

[ 214.214357] RIP: 0010:rlb_arp_recv+0x505/0xab0 [bonding]

[ 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

04 02 84 c0 74 06 0f 8e 12 05 00 00 80 7d 28 00 0f 84 8c 00

[ 214.241280] RSP: 0018:ffffc900073d8870 EFLAGS: 00010206

[ 214.247116] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888168556822 RCX: ffff88816855681e

[ 214.255082] RDX: 000000000000001d RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: 00000000000000e8

[ 214.263048] RBP: 00000000000000c0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffffed11192021c8

[ 214.271013] R10: ffff8888c9010e43 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 1ffff92000e7b119

[ 214.278978] R13: ffff8888c9010e00 R14: ffff888168556822 R15: ffff888168556810

[ 214.286943] FS: 00007f85d2d9cb80(0000) GS:ffff88886ccb3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 214.295966] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 214.302380] CR2: 00007f0d047b5e34 CR3: 00000008a1c2e002 CR4: 00000000001726f0

[ 214.310347] Call Trace:

[ 214.313070] <IRQ>

[ 214.315318] ? __pfx_rlb_arp_recv+0x10/0x10 [bonding]

[ 214.320975] bond_handle_frame+0x166/0xb60 [bonding]

[ 214.326537] ? __pfx_bond_handle_frame+0x10/0x10 [bonding]

[ 214.332680] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x576/0x2710

[ 214.339199] ? __pfx_arp_process+0x10/0x10

[ 214.343775] ? sched_balance_find_src_group+0x98/0x630

[ 214.349513] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x10/0x10

[ 214.356513] ? arp_rcv+0x307/0x690

[ 214.360311] ? __pfx_arp_rcv+0x10/0x10

[ 214.364499] ? __lock_acquire+0x58c/0xbd0

[ 214.368975] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xae/0x1b0

[ 214.374518] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x10/0x10

[ 214.380743] ? lock_acquire+0x10b/0x140

[ 214.385026] process_backlog+0x3f1/0x13a0

[ 214.389502] ? process_backlog+0x3aa/0x13a0

[ 214.394174] __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x9f/0x370

[ 214.399233] net_rx_action+0x8c1/0xe60

[ 214.403423] ? __pfx_net_rx_action+0x10/0x10

[ 214.408193] ? lock_acquire.part.0+0xbd/0x260

[ 214.413058] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x6c/0x540

[ 214.417540] ? mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70

[ 214.421920] handle_softirqs+0x1fd/0x860

[ 214.426302] ? __pfx_handle_softirqs+0x10/0x10

[ 214.431264] ? __neigh_event_send+0x2d6/0xf50

[ 214.436131] do_softirq+0xb1/0xf0

[ 214.439830] </IRQ>

The issue is reproducible by repeatedly running

ip link set bond0 up/down while receiving ARP messages, where

rlb_arp_recv() can race with rlb_deinitialize() and dereference

a freed rx_hashtbl entry.

Fix this by setting recv_probe to NULL and then calling

synchronize_net() to wait for any concurrent RX processing to finish.

This ensures that no RX handler can access rx_hashtbl after it is freed

in bond_alb_deinitialize(). (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References