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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68138" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:01.744Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:52.975Z" 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-2026-68138" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68138.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68138" title: "net/sched: serialize qdisc_rtab_list against concurrent get/put" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: serialize qdisc_rtab_list against concurrent get/put\n\nqdisc_get_rtab() and qdisc_put_rtab() mutate the process-global singly\nlinked list qdisc_rtab_list and a plain non-atomic 'int refcnt' with no\nlock. This was only safe because every caller historically held the RTNL\nmutex, which serialized all rate-table lookups, inserts and frees.\n\nThat invariant no longer holds. cls_flower sets\nTCF_PROTO_OPS_DOIT_UNLOCKED, so tc_new_tfilter() keeps rtnl_held == false\nfor it and sets TCA_ACT_FLAGS_NO_RTNL. That flag propagates through\ntcf_exts_validate_ex() -\u003e tcf_action_init() -\u003e tcf_action_init_1() -\u003e\ntcf_police_init(), which calls qdisc_get_rtab()/qdisc_put_rtab() with the\nRTNL mutex NOT held. Two RTM_NEWTFILTER requests on different CPUs, each\nadding a flower filter with a police action carrying the same rate, then\nrace on qdisc_rtab_list and on the non-atomic refcnt, leading to a\nuse-after-free / double-free of the kmalloc-2k struct qdisc_rate_table.\nqdisc_rtab_list is a single global (not per-netns), so the corrupted\nobject is shared system-wide.\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in qdisc_put_rtab+0x12f/0x160\n qdisc_put_rtab+0x12f/0x160\n tcf_police_init+0xda9/0x1590\n tcf_action_init_1+0x460/0x6b0\n tcf_action_init+0x439/0xa40\n tcf_exts_validate_ex+0x42d/0x550\n fl_change+0xddd/0x7da0\n tc_new_tfilter+0xaa7/0x2420\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048\n\nProtect qdisc_rtab_list and the refcount with a dedicated spinlock. The\n(sleeping, GFP_KERNEL) allocation in qdisc_get_rtab() is performed before\ntaking the lock; if a concurrent inserter added an identical table in the\nmeantime the freshly allocated one is freed under the lock, so no\nduplicate is leaked. qdisc_put_rtab() now decrements the refcount and\nunlinks under the same lock." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"470502de5bdb1ed0def643a4458593a40b8f6b66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b050d09dd1a0ddae83bf012cf4956b7a960235f"},{"version":"470502de5bdb1ed0def643a4458593a40b8f6b66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e0241f6cbb149d926ee8efee2c734fea71452cf"},{"version":"470502de5bdb1ed0def643a4458593a40b8f6b66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f93c89392bd3b180b5b7abc6fdae8e3dd667a313"},{"version":"470502de5bdb1ed0def643a4458593a40b8f6b66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4131dd0b6f67acddd616ed7c244e1d3eedd46e7b"},{"version":"470502de5bdb1ed0def643a4458593a40b8f6b66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d981098b76756ed71666a27518eeb69883657c43"},{"version":"470502de5bdb1ed0def643a4458593a40b8f6b66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ddc2eb0d2da9c83f54f1e5720525b461b8480c4"},{"version":"470502de5bdb1ed0def643a4458593a40b8f6b66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb29e1b41052488ee3f2d115d4a870497ebd7f7d"},{"version":"470502de5bdb1ed0def643a4458593a40b8f6b66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f43ee0c0730d6191629b5ee1ceae27b1ebfdc047"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.46","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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