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CVE-2026-68332

Low risk· EPSS 7%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the airoha network driver has a potential use-after-free in airoha_ppe_deinit(). The function replaces the NPU pointer with NULL without waiting for existing RCU readers, which could lead to accessing freed memory.

Risk Assessment

Use-after-free could lead to system crashes, network malfunction, or potentially privilege escalation in the kernel.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that adds synchronize_rcu() before ppe_deinit() to ensure all RCU readers complete before releasing resources.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: airoha: Fix potential use-after-free in airoha_ppe_deinit() airoha_ppe_deinit() replaces the NPU pointer with NULL via rcu_replace_pointer() but does not wait for existing RCU readers to exit before calling ppe_deinit() and airoha_npu_put(). This can cause a use-after-free if a reader in an RCU read-side critical section still holds a reference to the NPU when it is freed. The init path (airoha_ppe_init) already calls synchronize_rcu() after rcu_assign_pointer(), but the deinit path introduced in commit 6abcf751bc08 ("net: airoha: Fix schedule while atomic in airoha_ppe_deinit()") omitted the matching barrier when switching from rcu_read_lock()/rcu_dereference() to rcu_replace_pointer(). Add synchronize_rcu() before ppe_deinit() to ensure all existing RCU readers have completed before the NPU resources are released.

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