CVE-2026-31579
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wg_netns_pre_exit() manually acquires rtnl_lock() inside the pernet .pre_exit callback. This causes a hung task when another thread holds rtnl_mutex - the cleanup_net workqueue (or the setup_net failure rollback path) blocks indefinitely in wg_netns_pre_exit() waiting to acquire the lock. Convert to .exit_rtnl, introduced in commit 7a60d91c690b ("net: Add ->exit_rtnl() hook to struct pernet_operations."), where the framework already holds RTNL and batches all callbacks under a single rtnl_lock()/rtnl_unlock() pair, eliminating the contention window. The rcu_assign_pointer(wg->creating_net, NULL) is safe to move from .pre_exit to .exit_rtnl (which runs after synchronize_rcu()) because all RCU readers of creating_net either use maybe_get_net() - which returns NULL for a dying namespace with zero refcount - or access net->user_ns which remains valid throughout the entire ops_undo_list sequence. [ Jason: added __net_exit and __read_mostly annotations that were missing. ]
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 900575aa33a3eaaef802b31de187a85c4a4b4bd0 | affected | git | 707607db2193591b68c0e70f814133472c185b1e | Unavailable | None listed |
| 900575aa33a3eaaef802b31de187a85c4a4b4bd0 | affected | git | 9a9e69155b2091b8297afaf1533b8d68a3096841 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 900575aa33a3eaaef802b31de187a85c4a4b4bd0 | affected | git | 1c52ef00e391144334f10995985c2f256d4be982 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 900575aa33a3eaaef802b31de187a85c4a4b4bd0 | affected | git | a1d0f6cbb962af29586e3e65a4bced1a5e39221f | Unavailable | None listed |
| 900575aa33a3eaaef802b31de187a85c4a4b4bd0 | affected | git | 60a25ef8dacb3566b1a8c4de00572a498e2a3bf9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 363cc6efdbb54bb06cd5034a69b41aae974a736f | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.7.7 | affected | semver | 5.8 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.8 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.12.114 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.24 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 6.19.14 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.19.* | None listed |
| 7.0.1 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.0.* | None listed |
| 7.1 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |