CVE-2026-43481 (GCVE-0-2026-43481)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 15:08 – Updated: 2026-05-20 16:08
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Title
net-shapers: don't free reply skb after genlmsg_reply()
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb , < 8738dcc844fff7d0157ee775230e95df3b1884d7 (git)
Affected: 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb , < 83f7b54242d0abbfce35a55c01322f50962ed3ee (git)
Affected: 4b623f9f0f59652ea71fcb27d60b4c3b65126dbb , < 57885276cc16a2e2b76282c808a4e84cbecb3aae (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.19 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.9 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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