{"id":"CVE-2026-99053","title":"tipc: hold a reference to nodes found by link name","summary":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: hold a reference to nodes found by link name\n\ntipc_node_find_by_name() returns a node after dropping its RCU read lock\nwithout taking a reference.  The LINK_SET, …","severity":"none","vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","affected":["Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < b60259d4047fbb735476c729dcf9306a038b6110","Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < f17e70206a1e763fcca2578a8db3c4eed0f843a9","Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < 1428c5f1d346a2e1ac9156713975a72246957009","Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < 3c3b308ee6e25729a6cf09b69cdd0e093220d40b","Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < 17e73bae400f6a434dc006e3bee92c94cf781954","Linux 4.19"],"published":"2026-10-23","updated":"2026-10-23","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-23T12:22:35.462Z","source":"CVEORG","sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99053","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b60259d4047fbb735476c729dcf9306a038b6110"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f17e70206a1e763fcca2578a8db3c4eed0f843a9"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1428c5f1d346a2e1ac9156713975a72246957009"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c3b308ee6e25729a6cf09b69cdd0e093220d40b"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17e73bae400f6a434dc006e3bee92c94cf781954"}],"tags":["cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-23T13:24:55.521Z","slug":"CVE-2026-99053","body":"## Overview\n\nIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: hold a reference to nodes found by link name\n\ntipc_node_find_by_name() returns a node after dropping its RCU read lock\nwithout taking a reference.  The LINK_SET, LINK_GET and LINK_RESET_STATS\nhandlers then lock and access the node, racing with timer-driven cleanup of\na down peer.  Generic netlink serialization does not exclude the node\ntimer.\n\nThe following interleaving can leave a handler using a freed node:\n\n  CPU 0: find the node under RCU and release the node read lock\n  CPU 1: tipc_node_timeout() clears the links and unlinks the down node\n  CPU 1: drop the list and timer references, queuing tipc_node_free()\n  CPU 0: leave the RCU read-side critical section\n  CPU 1: complete the grace period and free the node\n  CPU 0: acquire the node lock through the stale pointer\n\nLINK_SET also uses the node's media address after releasing the node lock,\nwhen passing queued packets to tipc_bearer_xmit().\n\nKASAN on v7.3-rc5 reported:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_read_lock_bh\n  Write of size 4 at addr ffff88807e06f008 by task poc/92\n  Call Trace:\n   _raw_read_lock_bh                 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:287\n   tipc_nl_node_set_link             net/tipc/node.c:2475\n   genl_family_rcv_msg_doit          net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114\n   genl_rcv_msg                      net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209\n   netlink_rcv_skb                   net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2575\n\n  Allocated by task 0:\n   tipc_node_create                  net/tipc/node.c:539\n   tipc_node_check_dest              net/tipc/node.c:1196\n   tipc_disc_rcv                     net/tipc/discover.c:252\n\n  Freed by task 92:\n   kfree                             mm/slub.c:6801\n   rcu_core                          kernel/rcu/tree.c:2919\n\n  Last potentially related work creation:\n   __call_rcu_common.constprop.0     kernel/rcu/tree.c:3181\n   tipc_node_timeout                 net/tipc/node.c:814\n\nAcquire a reference to the selected node with kref_get_unless_zero() before\nleaving RCU, returning NULL if the node has already been released.  Release\nthat reference on every caller exit after the last node access, including\ntransmission in LINK_SET.  Keep the existing link lookup order and locking\nso concurrent link removal still takes the existing error paths.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < b60259d4047fbb735476c729dcf9306a038b6110`\n- `Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < f17e70206a1e763fcca2578a8db3c4eed0f843a9`\n- `Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < 1428c5f1d346a2e1ac9156713975a72246957009`\n- `Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < 3c3b308ee6e25729a6cf09b69cdd0e093220d40b`\n- `Linux >= 6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9 < 17e73bae400f6a434dc006e3bee92c94cf781954`\n- `Linux 4.19`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":3,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":2.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}