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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53337" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-01T13:32:19.046Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:23:16.239Z" 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-2026-53337" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53337.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53337" title: "net: bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in bond_do_ioctl()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in bond_do_ioctl()\n\nIn bond_do_ioctl(), slave_dev is obtained via __dev_get_by_name() which\ncan return NULL if the requested interface name does not exist. However,\nthe subsequent slave_dbg() call is placed before the NULL check:\n\n slave_dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr-\u003eifr_slave);\n slave_dbg(bond_dev, slave_dev, \"slave_dev=%p:\\n\", slave_dev); //here\n if (!slave_dev)\n return -ENODEV;\n\nThe slave_dbg() macro expands to netdev_dbg(bond_dev, \"(slave %s): \" fmt,\n(slave_dev)-\u003ename, ...) which unconditionally dereferences slave_dev-\u003ename\nbefore the NULL check is performed. This results in a NULL pointer\ndereference kernel oops when a user calls bonding ioctl (e.g.\nSIOCBONDENSLAVE, SIOCBONDRELEASE, etc.) with a non-existent slave\ninterface name.\n\nThis is reachable from userspace via the bonding ioctl interface with\nCAP_NET_ADMIN capability, making it a potential local denial-of-service\nvector.\n\nFix by moving the slave_dbg() call after the NULL check." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e2a7420df2e01370b40e4cf7b85ab9a885c6d755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b7558c85493467b2ea20738866b822db6442034"},{"version":"e2a7420df2e01370b40e4cf7b85ab9a885c6d755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b02b2e3e876c18733b868a29064abd11cdbf8feb"},{"version":"e2a7420df2e01370b40e4cf7b85ab9a885c6d755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66693957bacd1c9dae6188a7312d6be69a221f2d"},{"version":"e2a7420df2e01370b40e4cf7b85ab9a885c6d755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a629418d463fb50d132a1aa063b0105857311e5f"},{"version":"e2a7420df2e01370b40e4cf7b85ab9a885c6d755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2cfe290fdb1c32a4f4eb2b8ca3f363b305d21ba"},{"version":"e2a7420df2e01370b40e4cf7b85ab9a885c6d755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bcb8fad90f27300add583a8371db504b766d95c7"},{"version":"e2a7420df2e01370b40e4cf7b85ab9a885c6d755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0878106ddc486375084145848ff255dedfff46a"},{"version":"e2a7420df2e01370b40e4cf7b85ab9a885c6d755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a764b0e8317a863006e05732e1aefe821b9d8c2d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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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