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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64581" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-05T08:09:35.556Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:43.050Z" 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-2026-64581" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64581.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64581" title: "xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy()\n\nxfrm_user_policy() clears the socket dst cache with __sk_dst_reset(),\ni.e. the non-atomic __sk_dst_set(sk, NULL): it reads sk_dst_cache with\nrcu_dereference_protected(), stores NULL and dst_release()s the old dst.\nThat is only safe if no other thread modifies sk_dst_cache concurrently.\n\nFor a connected UDP socket that does not hold: the transmit fast path\n(udp_sendmsg -\u003e sk_dst_check -\u003e sk_dst_reset) resets the cache locklessly\nwith an atomic xchg(). A per-socket policy change racing a send can make\nboth sides observe the same old dst and each dst_release() it, dropping\nthe socket's single reference twice and freeing the xfrm_dst bundle while\nit is still referenced:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dst_release\n Write of size 4 at addr ffff88801897b6c0 by task exploit/155\n Call Trace:\n ...\n dst_release (... ./include/linux/rcuref.h:109)\n xfrm_user_policy (./include/net/sock.h:2239 ./include/net/sock.h:2256 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:3053)\n do_ip_setsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1347)\n ip_setsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1417)\n do_sock_setsockopt (net/socket.c:2368)\n __sys_setsockopt (net/socket.c:2393)\n __x64_sys_setsockopt (net/socket.c:2396)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n\nReachable by an unprivileged user via a user+network namespace.\n\nUse the atomic sk_dst_reset() so the cache is cleared and released with a\nsingle xchg(): whichever side wins releases the dst once, the other sees\nNULL and does nothing. Behaviour is otherwise unchanged." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2b06cdf3e688b98fcc9945873b5d42792bd4eee0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8686fd8d18b99f3a9038683045b2f2338a7706d"},{"version":"2b06cdf3e688b98fcc9945873b5d42792bd4eee0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9340ebdc13f8bb5063c0bc0b037ee7e640d4ae9"},{"version":"2b06cdf3e688b98fcc9945873b5d42792bd4eee0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f833821e4b52ab6335d443ede5fb79c38e61d19a"},{"version":"2b06cdf3e688b98fcc9945873b5d42792bd4eee0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0ab9a71167bae308e05ab13b65e2007504a603f"},{"version":"2b06cdf3e688b98fcc9945873b5d42792bd4eee0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8dd8929b71c4f06c614f8f54c2cc070453faae16"},{"version":"2b06cdf3e688b98fcc9945873b5d42792bd4eee0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ea8f06454012d9e7f9c6e6253df710949bf6294"},{"version":"2b06cdf3e688b98fcc9945873b5d42792bd4eee0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96b678d08268b5f5c6fc99d4289d9b7e334fc683"},{"version":"2b06cdf3e688b98fcc9945873b5d42792bd4eee0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c283e9ada7fcb7dd4b10592623086b2e6d2f9925"},{"version":"72f157be2f81910ae759bfe2e5c2256fc4625645","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9e9fe58a92a46c6d154d2901735bf230d91b8507","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"adc1ec6cdc20d430aa01b86497220709b9149466","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b54033eb1cfd77aba471269ddd804ed8d3e35dea","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c9e82cb34c3c2ee895af01bc899c6ed0bc6eb04a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5eef9b51114fcc65651d671add52f267f91b9451","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.16.52","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.4.163","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"3.18.101","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"version":"4.1.52","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.2"},{"version":"4.4.123","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.89","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.10.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.218","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.185","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.106","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.47","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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