CVE-2026-46120

Aliases:UBUNTU-CVE-2026-46120DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46120
Undergoing Analysis
Published: 28 May 2026, 09:35
Last modified:05 Aug 2026, 12:29

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.13% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

28 May 2026, 09:35
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2026, 12:29
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink(). After commit 5e72ce3e3980 ("net: ipv6: Use link netns in newlink() of rtnl_link_ops"), ip6erspan_newlink() correctly resolves the per-netns ip6gre hash via link_net. ip6erspan_changelink() was not converted in that series and still uses dev_net(dev), which diverges from the device's creation netns after IFLA_NET_NS_FD migration. This re-inserts the tunnel into the wrong per-netns hash. The original netns keeps a stale entry. When that netns is later destroyed, ip6gre_exit_rtnl_net() walks the stale entry, producing a slab-use-after-free reported by KASAN, followed by a kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c (LIST_POISON1) in unregister_netdevice_many_notify(). Reachable from an unprivileged user namespace (unshare --user --map-root-user --net). ip6gre_changelink() earlier in the same file already uses the cached t->net; only ip6erspan_changelink() has the wrong shape.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1HIGHScore: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.13% Percentile: 3%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-416Use After Free

    The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Systems

  • debianlinux

    < 5.10.259-1 | < 6.1.176-1 | < 6.12.88-1 | < 7.0.7-1

  • debianlinux-6.1

    < 6.1.176-1~deb11u1

  • ubuntulinux

    all | < 5.15.0-186.196 | < 6.8.0-136.136 | all | < 7.0.0-28.28

  • ubuntulinux-allwinner-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws

    all | < 5.15.0-1112.119 | < 6.8.0-1061.64 | all | < 7.0.0-1009.9

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.0

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.15

    < 5.15.0-1112.119~20.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.3

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.4

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.14

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.17

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.5

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.8

    < 6.8.0-1061.64~22.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-aws-fips

    all | < 5.15.0-1112.119+fips1 | < 6.8.0-1061.64+fips1

  • ubuntulinux-azure

    all | all | < 5.15.0-1117.126 | < 6.8.0-1063.71 | all | < 7.0.0-1010.10

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.15

    < 5.15.0-1117.126~20.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.3

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.4

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.14

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.17

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.5

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.8

    < 6.8.0-1063.71~22.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-azure-7.0

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-edge

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde

    all | < 5.15.0-1117.126 | < 6.8.0-1062.69 | all | < 7.0.0-1009.9

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-5.15

    < 5.15.0-1117.126~20.04.2

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-6.14

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-6.8

    < 6.8.0-1062.69~22.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fips

    all | < 5.15.0-1117.126+fips1 | < 6.8.0-1063.71+fips2

  • ubuntulinux-azure-nvidia

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-nvidia-6.14

    all

  • ubuntulinux-bluefield

    all | all | < 5.15.0-1096.98 | < 6.8.0-1028.33

  • ubuntulinux-fips

    all | < 5.15.0-186.196+fips1 | < 6.8.0-136.136+fips2

  • ubuntulinux-gcp

    all | all | < 5.15.0-1112.122 | < 6.8.0-1064.72 | all | < 7.0.0-1008.8

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.15

    all | < 5.15.0-1112.122~20.04.1

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