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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53069" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:10.930Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:47:14.857Z" 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-2026-53069" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53069.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53069" title: "net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master\n\nsyzkaller reported a kernel panic in bond_rr_gen_slave_id() reached via\nxdp_master_redirect(). Full decoded trace:\n\n https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=80e046b8da2820b6ba73\n\nbond_rr_gen_slave_id() dereferences bond-\u003err_tx_counter, a per-CPU\ncounter that bonding only allocates in bond_open() when the mode is\nround-robin. If the bond device was never brought up, rr_tx_counter\nstays NULL.\n\nThe XDP redirect path can still reach that code on a bond that was\nnever opened: bpf_master_redirect_enabled_key is a global static key,\nso as soon as any bond device has native XDP attached, the\nXDP_TX -\u003e xdp_master_redirect() interception is enabled for every\nslave system-wide. The path xdp_master_redirect() -\u003e\nbond_xdp_get_xmit_slave() -\u003e bond_xdp_xmit_roundrobin_slave_get() -\u003e\nbond_rr_gen_slave_id() then runs against a bond that has no\nrr_tx_counter and crashes.\n\nFix this in the generic xdp_master_redirect() by refusing to call into\nthe master's -\u003endo_xdp_get_xmit_slave() when the master device is not\nup. IFF_UP is only set after -\u003endo_open() has successfully returned,\nso this reliably excludes masters whose XDP state has not been fully\ninitialized. Drop the frame with XDP_ABORTED so the exception is\nvisible via trace_xdp_exception() rather than silently falling through.\nThis is not specific to bonding: any current or future master that\ndefers XDP state allocation to -\u003endo_open() is protected." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3128b294b426533c8d9162187446d93a8a160359"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"acbf45bd584d924b320bee2a7fe2a26f64904d95"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"866d3d9b87751b1944168fd82615505e0c0fd6cf"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"183128da0406b1c10e6f60b7b9fe70788b9c8c1d"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7bad93e99737e4a5c0c14ac50c05152cf4e28022"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea690b3b6e58ae00979af8195b4cc24df466b65e"},{"version":"879af96ffd72706c6e3278ea6b45b0b0e37ec5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1921f91298d1388a0bb9db8f83800c998b649cb3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"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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