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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53259" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:48.571Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:34:37.940Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-53259" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53259.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53259" title: "ipv6: anycast: insert aca into global hash under idev-\u003elock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: anycast: insert aca into global hash under idev-\u003elock\n\nsyzbot reported a splat [1]: a slab-use-after-free in\nipv6_chk_acast_addr(), which walks the global inet6_acaddr_lst[] hash\nunder RCU and dereferences a struct ifacaddr6 that has already been\nfreed while still linked in the hash, so a later reader walks into a\ndangling node.\n\nIn __ipv6_dev_ac_inc() the aca is allocated with refcount 1, then\naca_get() bumps it to 2 to keep it alive across the unlocked region.\nIt is published to idev-\u003eac_list under idev-\u003elock, but\nipv6_add_acaddr_hash() runs after write_unlock_bh(). A concurrent\nteardown (ipv6_ac_destroy_dev() from addrconf_ifdown(), under RTNL)\ncan slip into that window:\n\n CPU0 __ipv6_dev_ac_inc CPU1 ipv6_ac_destroy_dev (RTNL)\n ------------------------------ ------------------------------------\n aca_alloc() refcnt 1\n aca_get() refcnt 2\n write_lock_bh(idev-\u003elock)\n add aca to ac_list\n write_unlock_bh(idev-\u003elock)\n write_lock_bh(idev-\u003elock)\n pull aca off ac_list\n write_unlock_bh(idev-\u003elock)\n ipv6_del_acaddr_hash(aca)\n hlist_del_init_rcu() is a no-op,\n aca is not in the hash yet\n aca_put() refcnt 2-\u003e1\n ipv6_add_acaddr_hash(aca)\n aca now inserted into the hash\n aca_put() refcnt 1-\u003e0\n call_rcu(aca_free_rcu) -\u003e kfree(aca)\n\nThe hash removal becomes a no-op because the insertion has not\nhappened yet, so once CPU0 inserts and drops the last reference, the\naca is freed while still linked in inet6_acaddr_lst[], and readers\ndereference freed memory after the slab slot is reused.\n\nThis window opened once RTNL stopped serializing the join path against\ndevice teardown. Move ipv6_add_acaddr_hash() inside the idev-\u003elock\nsection so the ac_list and hash insertions are atomic with respect to\nteardown: a racing remover now either misses the aca entirely or finds\nit in both lists.\n\nacaddr_hash_lock is now nested under idev-\u003elock, which is acquired in\nsoftirq context, so switch all acaddr_hash_lock sites to spin_lock_bh()\nto avoid the irq lock inversion reported in [2].\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a01df04303c131efbf3a\n[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a194ef7.ba3b1513.1890b4.0000.GAE@google.com/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"eb1ac9ff6c4a5720b1a1476233be374c5dc44bff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15be7e9fdbff831fb3e89b83cc337a4f85ad3310"},{"version":"eb1ac9ff6c4a5720b1a1476233be374c5dc44bff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a967c498baa976b11d4800dda224c507416e97c"},{"version":"eb1ac9ff6c4a5720b1a1476233be374c5dc44bff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f723ccaff2fb72b71ae8a9fd283f0dee4d9ae7a3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.13","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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