High severity · published May 28, 2026
CVE-2026-46120
ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink().
7.8
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 2% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
4.16.12 before 4.17; 4.17.1 before 5.10.258; 5.11 before 5.15.209; 5.16 before 6.1.175; 6.2 before 6.6.140; 6.7 before 6.12.88; +6 more · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 before 7bd0f2b162b426b343a114e1b329f0d8d14fdc6e; 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 before 01b71ff2857d3598337de11e7840a8e3ff21553c; 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 before 0fcf6731706f73494245a9c0d64f93bebf95bb51; 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 before eca62bb0569de4d43a4dac06a2092a9d4ca1d702; 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 before 311fdd26eb4443d43b909cc67a10f3a5fd1b21b2; 2d665034f239412927b1e71329f20f001c92da09 before e70cfb40c3a99b232cd42c6a6a10f0d8e039dc82; +5 more · source: vendor