CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64054

Low risk· EPSS 6%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found in the net shaper mechanism. The net_shaper_nl_group_doit() function does not deduplicate NET_SHAPER_A_LEAVES entries, causing a double free of the same parent pointer in the cleanup loop. This occurs when userspace supplies the same leaf handle twice.

Risk Assessment

Double free memory corruption can lead to system crashes (kernel panic) or potentially be exploited by a local attacker for privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that deduplicates entries in the NET_SHAPER_A_LEAVES group request.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: shaper: reject duplicate leaves in GROUP request net_shaper_nl_group_doit() does not deduplicate NET_SHAPER_A_LEAVES entries. When userspace supplies the same leaf handle twice, the same old-parent pointer lands twice in old_nodes[]. The cleanup loop double frees the parent. Of course the same parent may still be in old_nodes[] twice if we are moving multiple of its leaves. Note that this patch also implicitly fixes the fact that the i >= leaves_count path forgets to set ret.

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