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CVE-2026-74740 (GCVE-0-2026-74740)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-26 14:36 – Updated: 2026-08-26 14:36
VLAI
Title
net/sched: act_api: fix TOCTOU NULL deref on a->goto_chain
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_api: fix TOCTOU NULL deref on a->goto_chain tcf_action_exec() handles TC_ACT_GOTO_CHAIN by first checking rcu_access_pointer(a->goto_chain) and then calling tcf_action_goto_chain_exec(), which does a second, independent rcu_dereference_bh(a->goto_chain) read and immediately dereferences chain->filter_chain. A concurrent tcf_action_set_ctrlact() (e.g. the gact replace path) can clear a->goto_chain between the two reads, so the second read returns NULL and tcf_action_goto_chain_exec() dereferences NULL. Fix the race by doing a single rcu_dereference_bh() read of a->goto_chain in tcf_action_exec(), checking it once for NULL, and passing the resulting chain pointer into tcf_action_goto_chain_exec(). This turns the split check/use into a single check/use on one value.
Severity
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Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ee3bbfe806cdb46b02cda63626cb50a7a7b19fc5 , < 91d55fd1fdb85c8371ca8793c788ea7d5192383a (git)
Affected: ee3bbfe806cdb46b02cda63626cb50a7a7b19fc5 , < 1ec48b6715c29b20105e3485206602cff6c51ae5 (git)
Affected: ee3bbfe806cdb46b02cda63626cb50a7a7b19fc5 , < abceabc4408fca6a9dd52611f5d197dec9390d63 (git)
Affected: ee3bbfe806cdb46b02cda63626cb50a7a7b19fc5 , < 6b70886ebc428eed43a069c8944a931b5fb3f4e4 (git)
Affected: ee3bbfe806cdb46b02cda63626cb50a7a7b19fc5 , < f60b396ee174206fe08ebf997d16cd3801b77b22 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.153 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.105 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.46 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.10 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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