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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23340" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:27:28.728Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:41.889Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23340" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23340.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23340" title: "net: sched: avoid qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() vs dequeue race for lockless qdiscs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: sched: avoid qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() vs dequeue race for lockless qdiscs\n\nWhen shrinking the number of real tx queues,\nnetif_set_real_num_tx_queues() calls qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() to flush\nqdiscs for queues which will no longer be used.\n\nqdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() currently serializes qdisc_reset() with\nqdisc_lock(). However, for lockless qdiscs, the dequeue path is\nserialized by qdisc_run_begin/end() using qdisc-\u003eseqlock instead, so\nqdisc_reset() can run concurrently with __qdisc_run() and free skbs\nwhile they are still being dequeued, leading to UAF.\n\nThis can easily be reproduced on e.g. virtio-net by imposing heavy\ntraffic while frequently changing the number of queue pairs:\n\n iperf3 -ub0 -c $peer -t 0 &\n while :; do\n ethtool -L eth0 combined 1\n ethtool -L eth0 combined 2\n done\n\nWith KASAN enabled, this leads to reports like:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __qdisc_run+0x133f/0x1760\n ...\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ...\n __qdisc_run+0x133f/0x1760\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x248f/0x3550\n ip_finish_output2+0xa42/0x2110\n ip_output+0x1a7/0x410\n ip_send_skb+0x2e6/0x480\n udp_send_skb+0xb0a/0x1590\n udp_sendmsg+0x13c9/0x1fc0\n ...\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 1270 on cpu 5 at 44.558414s:\n ...\n alloc_skb_with_frags+0x84/0x7c0\n sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x69a/0x830\n __ip_append_data+0x1b86/0x48c0\n ip_make_skb+0x1e8/0x2b0\n udp_sendmsg+0x13a6/0x1fc0\n ...\n\n Freed by task 1306 on cpu 3 at 44.558445s:\n ...\n kmem_cache_free+0x117/0x5e0\n pfifo_fast_reset+0x14d/0x580\n qdisc_reset+0x9e/0x5f0\n netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0x303/0x840\n virtnet_set_channels+0x1bf/0x260 [virtio_net]\n ethnl_set_channels+0x684/0xae0\n ethnl_default_set_doit+0x31a/0x890\n ...\n\nSerialize qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() against the lockless dequeue path by\ntaking qdisc-\u003eseqlock for TCQ_F_NOLOCK qdiscs, matching the\nserialization model already used by dev_reset_queue().\n\nAdditionally clear QDISC_STATE_NON_EMPTY after reset so the qdisc state\nreflects an empty queue, avoiding needless re-scheduling." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6b3ba9146fe64b9bebb6346c9dcfe3b4851de2d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bb27ad54d12de67e457d7d251198e361bef835e"},{"version":"6b3ba9146fe64b9bebb6346c9dcfe3b4851de2d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7594467c49bfc2f4644dee0415ac2290db11fa0d"},{"version":"6b3ba9146fe64b9bebb6346c9dcfe3b4851de2d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbd58b0730aa06ab6ad26079cf9a5b6b58e7e750"},{"version":"6b3ba9146fe64b9bebb6346c9dcfe3b4851de2d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bc4e69306ed7ae02232eb4c0b23ed621a26d504"},{"version":"6b3ba9146fe64b9bebb6346c9dcfe3b4851de2d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8314944cc3bdeaa5a73e6f8a8cf0d94822e625cb"},{"version":"6b3ba9146fe64b9bebb6346c9dcfe3b4851de2d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c69df4e0524f8de8e176ba389acd83e85f5f49d0"},{"version":"6b3ba9146fe64b9bebb6346c9dcfe3b4851de2d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f083faf59d14c04e01ec05a7507f036c965acf8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.77","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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