High severity · published Oct 23, 2026
CVE-2026-99054
tipc: destroy topsrv workqueues before closing connections
New
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: destroy topsrv workqueues before closing connections
tipc_topsrv_stop() closed subscriber connections while the topology
server's send and receive workqueues were still running. Socket
callbacks and subscription events could then queue more work, and
in-flight send/recv work could drop the last connection reference
during the conn_idr walk.
That race produced several teardown failures: refcount_t addition on
0 from conn_get() on a connection whose release was blocked on
idr_lock, a subsequent use-after-free in tipc_conn_close(),
queue_work() on an already destroyed workqueue from the listener
data-ready callback, and an RCU stall in tipc_topsrv_exit_net()
while the walk spun under idr_lock.
Clear srv->listener under idr_lock so it acts as a shutdown flag,
skip queue_work() once it is NULL, destroy the workqueues to flush
in-flight work, and only then close the remaining connections.
Refuse tipc_conn_lookup() after that flag is cleared, and drop
idr_lock when the teardown walk finds no connection, so an
in-flight subscription event cannot pin idr_in_use while the
walk holds the lock.
v3 supersedes the narrower in-thread diff Tung Quang Nguyen
posted on 2026-09-23. It keeps his teardown order and adds the
lookup refusal and the empty-idr unlock.
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)0.2% · higher than 5% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before 7f796bb3b440d7f1b14c0e3b520462eb34f553af; c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before da9c16568bc79140a54c1f5fcf07a0305df47b37; c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before 0af8780bdfdfc91fb9127bddb9c48fab67dc9d9e; c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before fb717c536af2aafeca520ff11d1e0f25f7ab8fa9; c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before 3acdd44385bc7e2e57605e073691ce69cc5a960d; 3.11 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-99054
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99054
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0af8780bdfdfc91fb9127bddb9c48fab67dc9d9e
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3acdd44385bc7e2e57605e073691ce69cc5a960d
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f796bb3b440d7f1b14c0e3b520462eb34f553af
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da9c16568bc79140a54c1f5fcf07a0305df47b37
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb717c536af2aafeca520ff11d1e0f25f7ab8fa9
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