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CVE-2026-53262

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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l2tp: pppol2tp: hold reference to session in pppol2tp_ioctl()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: l2tp: pppol2tp: hold reference to session in pppol2tp_ioctl() pppol2tp_ioctl() read sock->sk->sk_user_data directly without any locks or reference counting. If a controllable sleep was induced during copy_from_user() (e.g. via a userfaultfd page fault sleep), a concurrent socket close could trigger pppol2tp_session_close() asynchronously. This frees the l2tp_session structure via the l2tp_session_del_work workqueue. Upon resuming, the ioctl thread dereferences the stale session pointer, resulting in a Use-After-Free (UAF). Fix this by securely fetching the session reference using the RCU-safe, refcounted helper pppol2tp_sock_to_session(sk) on entry. This locks the session's refcount across the sleep. We structured the function to exit via standard err breaks, guaranteeing that l2tp_session_put() is cleanly called on all return paths to drop the reference. To preserve existing behavior we validate the session and its magic signature only for the specific L2TP commands that require it. This ensures that generic/unknown ioctls called on an unconnected socket still return -ENOIOCTLCMD and correctly fall back to generic handlers (e.g. in sock_do_ioctl()).

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
fd558d186df2c13a22455373858bae634a4795afaffectedgit312ecea13b67797747eb9d4b9dab8d3846de6dfbUnavailableNone listed
fd558d186df2c13a22455373858bae634a4795afaffectedgit78cdfdca88cbf731a92f3b9ee5427c633dd94e28UnavailableNone listed
fd558d186df2c13a22455373858bae634a4795afaffectedgite251d4cdfc725c9e7d686161e3b775a0e7d95053UnavailableNone listed
fd558d186df2c13a22455373858bae634a4795afaffectedgit62f327e287cf7b595ae3f73ba72f5cd2a9e9f39fUnavailableNone listed
fd558d186df2c13a22455373858bae634a4795afaffectedgita213a8950414c684999dcf03edeea6c46ede172eUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
2.6.35affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver2.6.35UnavailableNone listed
6.6.160unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.94unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.36unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.0.13unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.0.*None listed
7.1unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed