# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64045"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:39:30.526Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:38:37.111Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64045"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64045.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64045"
title: "ovpn: tcp - use cached peer pointer in ovpn_tcp_close()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\novpn: tcp - use cached peer pointer in ovpn_tcp_close()\n\novpn_tcp_close() loads the ovpn_socket via rcu_dereference_sk_user_data()\nunder rcu_read_lock(), takes a reference on sock-\u003epeer, caches the peer\npointer in a local, and drops the read lock. It then passes sock-\u003epeer\n(rather than the cached local) to ovpn_peer_del(), re-dereferencing the\novpn_socket after the RCU read section has ended.\n\nUnlike ovpn_tcp_sendmsg(), which uses the same \"load under RCU, use\nafter unlock\" pattern but is protected by lock_sock() held across the\nfunction, ovpn_tcp_close() runs without the socket lock: inet_release()\ninvokes sk_prot-\u003eclose() without taking lock_sock first.\n\novpn_socket_release() can therefore complete its kref_put -\u003e detach -\u003e\nsynchronize_rcu -\u003e kfree(sock) sequence concurrently, in the window\nafter ovpn_tcp_close() drops rcu_read_lock() but before it dereferences\nsock-\u003epeer. The synchronize_rcu() in ovpn_socket_release() protects\nreaders that use the dereferenced pointer inside the RCU read section,\nnot those that escape the pointer to a local and use it afterwards.\n\nA reproducer follows the pattern of commit 94560267d6c4 (\"ovpn: tcp -\ndon't deref NULL sk_socket member after tcp_close()\"): trigger a peer\nremoval (keepalive expiration or netlink OVPN_CMD_DEL_PEER) at the same\nmoment userspace closes the TCP fd. That commit fixed the detach-side\nof the same race window; this one fixes the close-side at a different\nvictim.\n\nTighten the entry block to read sock-\u003epeer exactly once into the cached\npeer local, and route all subsequent uses (the hold check, the\novpn_peer_del() call, and the prot-\u003eclose() invocation) through that\nlocal. sock-\u003epeer is only ever written once in ovpn_socket_new() under\nlock_sock(), before rcu_assign_sk_user_data() publishes the ovpn_socket,\nand is never reassigned afterwards - but the previous multi-read pattern\nmade that invariant implicit rather than explicit. The same multi-read\nshape exists in ovpn_tcp_recvmsg(), ovpn_tcp_sendmsg(),\novpn_tcp_data_ready() and ovpn_tcp_write_space(); those will be cleaned\nup via a dedicated helper in a follow-up net-next series."
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