# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46120"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:35:35.385Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:36:51.221Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46120"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46120.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46120"
title: "ip6_gre: Use cached t-\u003enet in ip6erspan_changelink()."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nip6_gre: Use cached t-\u003enet in ip6erspan_changelink().\n\nAfter commit 5e72ce3e3980 (\"net: ipv6: Use link netns in newlink() of\nrtnl_link_ops\"), ip6erspan_newlink() correctly resolves the per-netns\nip6gre hash via link_net. ip6erspan_changelink() was not converted in\nthat series and still uses dev_net(dev), which diverges from the\ndevice's creation netns after IFLA_NET_NS_FD migration.\n\nThis re-inserts the tunnel into the wrong per-netns hash. The\noriginal netns keeps a stale entry. When that netns is later\ndestroyed, ip6gre_exit_rtnl_net() walks the stale entry, producing a\nslab-use-after-free reported by KASAN, followed by a kernel BUG at\nnet/core/dev.c (LIST_POISON1) in unregister_netdevice_many_notify().\n\nReachable from an unprivileged user namespace (unshare --user\n--map-root-user --net).\n\nip6gre_changelink() earlier in the same file already uses the cached\nt-\u003enet; only ip6erspan_changelink() has the wrong shape."
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