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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-52925" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T07:14:19.351Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-24T07:14:19.351Z" 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-2026-52925" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52925.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52925" title: "vrf: Fix a potential NPD when removing a port from a VRF" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvrf: Fix a potential NPD when removing a port from a VRF\n\nRCU readers that identified a net device as a VRF port using\nnetif_is_l3_slave() assume that a subsequent call to\nnetdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu() will return a VRF device. They then\ncontinue to dereference its l3mdev operations.\n\nThis assumption is not always correct and can result in a NPD [1]. There\nis no RCU synchronization when removing a port from a VRF, so it is\npossible for an RCU reader to see a new master device (e.g., a bridge)\nthat does not have l3mdev operations.\n\nFix by adding RCU synchronization after clearing the IFF_L3MDEV_SLAVE\nflag. Skip this synchronization when a net device is removed from a VRF\nas part of its deletion and when the VRF device itself is deleted. In\nthe latter case an RCU grace period will pass by the time RTNL is\nreleased.\n\n[1]\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n[...]\nRIP: 0010:l3mdev_fib_table_rcu (net/l3mdev/l3mdev.c:181)\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\nl3mdev_fib_table_by_index (net/l3mdev/l3mdev.c:201 net/l3mdev/l3mdev.c:189)\n__inet_bind (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:499 (discriminator 3))\ninet_bind_sk (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:469)\n__sys_bind (./include/linux/file.h:62 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/file.h:83 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:1951 (discriminator 1))\n__x64_sys_bind (net/socket.c:1969 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:1967 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:1967 (discriminator 1))\ndo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fdeea7be88b12742bfd50d9e19a06c0d2e702400","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c022f582fd16a470df6ed9e7fb7e9fc48946d49"},{"version":"fdeea7be88b12742bfd50d9e19a06c0d2e702400","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ab6fc60ed5a0344b60711b09bff1dc238d8d6a4"},{"version":"fdeea7be88b12742bfd50d9e19a06c0d2e702400","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"468defa0b70902a22f4478c1207624bc1b31c124"},{"version":"fdeea7be88b12742bfd50d9e19a06c0d2e702400","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3db8d078f7f652379ee394132b169d304f6eb4c1"},{"version":"fdeea7be88b12742bfd50d9e19a06c0d2e702400","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c2b792f04a3db97c9d8d2a45817e93f8884baf5"},{"version":"fdeea7be88b12742bfd50d9e19a06c0d2e702400","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7a97f2303e63ede105c1d55ef53dc497364e11d"},{"version":"fdeea7be88b12742bfd50d9e19a06c0d2e702400","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d47204c127992da0c976ac9747070a575912e0fe"},{"version":"fdeea7be88b12742bfd50d9e19a06c0d2e702400","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2674d603a9e6970463b2b9ebcf8e31e90beae169"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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