# 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-2026-46165"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:36:20.855Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:20:57.991Z"
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-2026-46165"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46165.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46165"
title: "openvswitch: vport: fix self-deadlock on release of tunnel ports"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nopenvswitch: vport: fix self-deadlock on release of tunnel ports\n\nvports are used concurrently and protected by RCU, so netdev_put()\nmust happen after the RCU grace period.  So, either in an RCU call or\nafter the synchronize_net().  The rtnl_delete_link() must happen under\nRTNL and so can't be executed in RCU context.  Calling synchronize_net()\nwhile holding RTNL is not a good idea for performance and system\nstability under load in general, so calling netdev_put() in RCU call\nis the right solution here.\n\nHowever,\nwhen the device is deleted, rtnl_unlock() will call netdev_run_todo()\nand block until all the references are gone.  In the current code this\nmeans that we never reach the call_rcu() and the vport is never freed\nand the reference is never released, causing a self-deadlock on device\nremoval.\n\nFix that by moving the rcu_call() before the rtnl_unlock(), so the\nscheduled RCU callback will be executed when synchronize_net() is\ncalled from the rtnl_unlock()-\u003enetdev_run_todo() while the RTNL itself\nis already released."
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