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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64579" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-05T08:09:34.346Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:29:04.594Z" 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-2026-64579" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64579.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64579" title: "xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert\n\nxfrm_hash_rebuild()'s first loop preallocates the bins/chains the reinsert\nloop needs, so the reinsert (after hlist_del_rcu()) cannot allocate or\nfail. But its guard is inverted: it skips policies with prefixlen \u003c\nthreshold and preallocates for the rest.\n\nprefixlen \u003c threshold is exactly when policy_hash_bysel() returns NULL and\nthe reinsert takes the allocating xfrm_policy_inexact_insert() path. So the\nloop preallocates for the exact policies (which never allocate) and skips\nthe inexact ones, whose bin/node is then allocated GFP_ATOMIC during\nreinsert. On failure the error path only WARN_ONCE()s and continues,\nleaving a poisoned bydst node; the next rebuild's hlist_del_rcu()\ndereferences LIST_POISON2 and takes a GPF. Reachable under memory pressure,\ndeterministic via failslab.\n\nInvert the guard so preallocation covers exactly the reinserted policies;\nthe reinsert then allocates nothing and cannot fail.\n\nCrash:\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n 0xfbd59c0000000024: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead...]\n ...\n Workqueue: events xfrm_hash_rebuild\n RIP: 0010:xfrm_hash_rebuild+0x5b3/0x1190\n RAX: dead000000000122 (LIST_POISON2 + offset)\n ...\n Call Trace:\n hlist_del_rcu (include/linux/rculist.h:599)\n xfrm_hash_rebuild (net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:1365)\n process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)\n worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3486)\n kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)\n ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)\n ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)\n ...\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"24969facd704a5f0dd8e08da86bf32a9ce972bee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e48f4c3e3df35b34be719d72d737bbeaca77cf0c"},{"version":"24969facd704a5f0dd8e08da86bf32a9ce972bee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cdeed9df1306f1a277e715600772640d63defa9"},{"version":"24969facd704a5f0dd8e08da86bf32a9ce972bee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43a4d510523779891cf8eca7ffb4a086b0b5d8bf"},{"version":"24969facd704a5f0dd8e08da86bf32a9ce972bee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9d9cc21cc90014724a14c447e3d587be9447107"},{"version":"24969facd704a5f0dd8e08da86bf32a9ce972bee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94c00391a5117530188334f740ce26d3f1256190"},{"version":"24969facd704a5f0dd8e08da86bf32a9ce972bee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7acc5ed2f33608a3d83b64f50a5766843b6e2485"},{"version":"24969facd704a5f0dd8e08da86bf32a9ce972bee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6aa3796d18a9fda953ad76a62b57bf6c145cb9ef"},{"version":"24969facd704a5f0dd8e08da86bf32a9ce972bee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f38f8cce2f7e79775b3db7e8a5eacda04ac908e4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.0"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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