CVE-2026-23209
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink() valis provided a nice repro to crash the kernel: ip link add p1 type veth peer p2 ip link set address 00:00:00:00:00:20 dev p1 ip link set up dev p1 ip link set up dev p2 ip link add mv0 link p2 type macvlan mode source ip link add invalid% link p2 type macvlan mode source macaddr add 00:00:00:00:00:20 ping -c1 -I p1 1.2.3.4 He also gave a very detailed analysis: <quote valis> The issue is triggered when a new macvlan link is created with MACVLAN_MODE_SOURCE mode and MACVLAN_MACADDR_ADD (or MACVLAN_MACADDR_SET) parameter, lower device already has a macvlan port and register_netdevice() called from macvlan_common_newlink() fails (e.g. because of the invalid link name). In this case macvlan_hash_add_source is called from macvlan_change_sources() / macvlan_common_newlink(): This adds a reference to vlan to the port's vlan_source_hash using macvlan_source_entry. vlan is a pointer to the priv data of the link that is being created. When register_netdevice() fails, the error is returned from macvlan_newlink() to rtnl_newlink_create(): if (ops->newlink) err = ops->newlink(dev, ¶ms, extack); else err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err < 0) { free_netdev(dev); goto out; } and free_netdev() is called, causing a kvfree() on the struct net_device that is still referenced in the source entry attached to the lower device's macvlan port. Now all packets sent on the macvlan port with a matching source mac address will trigger a use-after-free in macvlan_forward_source(). </quote valis> With all that, my fix is to make sure we call macvlan_flush_sources() regardless of @create value whenever "goto destroy_macvlan_port;" path is taken. Many thanks to valis for following up on this issue.
CVSS Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Threat Intelligence
Weaknesses 1
Affected Products 18
| Vendor | Product | Version | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | ≥4.9.1 – <5.10.250 |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | ≥5.11 – <5.15.200 |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | ≥5.16 – <6.1.163 |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | ≥6.2 – <6.6.124 |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | ≥6.7 – <6.12.70 |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | ≥6.13 – <6.18.10 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.9 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.9 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.9 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.9 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 | any |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 | any |
References 7
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ba9f0dc865136174cb98834280fb21bbc950c7
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5dae6b36a7cb7a4fcf4121b95e9ca7f96f816c8a
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/986967a162142710076782d5b93daab93a892980
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c43d0e787cbba569ec9d11579ed370b50fab6c9c
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdedcd5aa3f3cb8b7ae0f87ab3a936d0bd583d66
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da5c6b8ae47e414be47e5e04def15b25d5c962dc
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8db6475a83649689c087a8f52486fcc53e627e9
Remediation
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ba9f0dc865136174cb98834280fb21bbc950c7
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5dae6b36a7cb7a4fcf4121b95e9ca7f96f816c8a
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/986967a162142710076782d5b93daab93a892980
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c43d0e787cbba569ec9d11579ed370b50fab6c9c
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdedcd5aa3f3cb8b7ae0f87ab3a936d0bd583d66
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da5c6b8ae47e414be47e5e04def15b25d5c962dc
- git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8db6475a83649689c087a8f52486fcc53e627e9