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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23413"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-02T11:40:54.384Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:42.855Z"
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-2026-23413"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23413.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23413"
title: "clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nclsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry\n\nFix a use-after-free in the clsact qdisc upon init/destroy rollback asymmetry.\nThe latter is achieved by first fully initializing a clsact instance, and\nthen in a second step having a replacement failure for the new clsact qdisc\ninstance. clsact_init() initializes ingress first and then takes care of the\negress part. This can fail midway, for example, via tcf_block_get_ext(). Upon\nfailure, the kernel will trigger the clsact_destroy() callback.\n\nCommit 1cb6f0bae504 (\"bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry\") details the\nway how the transition is happening. If tcf_block_get_ext on the q-\u003eingress_block\nends up failing, we took the tcx_miniq_inc reference count on the ingress\nside, but not yet on the egress side. clsact_destroy() tests whether the\n{ingress,egress}_entry was non-NULL. However, even in midway failure on the\nreplacement, both are in fact non-NULL with a valid egress_entry from the\nprevious clsact instance.\n\nWhat we really need to test for is whether the qdisc instance-specific ingress\nor egress side previously got initialized. This adds a small helper for checking\nthe miniq initialization called mini_qdisc_pair_inited, and utilizes that upon\nclsact_destroy() in order to fix the use-after-free scenario. Convert the\ningress_destroy() side as well so both are consistent to each other."
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