CVE-2026-23270 (GCVE-0-2026-23270)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-18 17:54 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:03
VLAI?
Title
net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks As Paolo said earlier [1]: "Since the blamed commit below, classify can return TC_ACT_CONSUMED while the current skb being held by the defragmentation engine. As reported by GangMin Kim, if such packet is that may cause a UaF when the defrag engine later on tries to tuch again such packet." act_ct was never meant to be used in the egress path, however some users are attaching it to egress today [2]. Attempting to reach a middle ground, we noticed that, while most qdiscs are not handling TC_ACT_CONSUMED, clsact/ingress qdiscs are. With that in mind, we address the issue by only allowing act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks. That way it's still possible to attach act_ct to egress (albeit only with clsact). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/674b8cbfc385c6f37fb29a1de08d8fe5c2b0fbee.1771321118.git.pabeni@redhat.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cc6bfb4a-4a2b-42d8-b9ce-7ef6644fb22b@ovn.org/
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 172ba7d46c202e679f3ccb10264c67416aaeb1c4 , < bc4e5bb529823a09f02dbe96169de679a9db26e0 (git)
Affected: 0b5b831122fc3789fff75be433ba3e4dd7b779d4 , < fb3c380a54e33d1fd272cc342faa906d787d7ef1 (git)
Affected: 73f7da5fd124f2cda9161e2e46114915e6e82e97 , < 5a110ddcc99bda77a28598b3555fe009eaab3828 (git)
Affected: 3f14b377d01d8357eba032b4cabc8c1149b458b6 , < 524ce8b4ea8f64900b6c52b6a28df74f6bc0801e (git)
Affected: 3f14b377d01d8357eba032b4cabc8c1149b458b6 , < 380ad8b7c65ea7aa10ef2258297079ed5ac1f5b6 (git)
Affected: 3f14b377d01d8357eba032b4cabc8c1149b458b6 , < 9deda0fcda5c1f388c5e279541850b71a2ccfcf4 (git)
Affected: 3f14b377d01d8357eba032b4cabc8c1149b458b6 , < 11cb63b0d1a0685e0831ae3c77223e002ef18189 (git)
Affected: f5346df0591d10bc948761ca854b1fae6d2ef441 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.167 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.77 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.18 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.8 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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