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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68398" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:04:17.771Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:08.443Z" 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-2026-68398" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68398.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68398" title: "ppp: defer channel free to an RCU grace period to fix pppol2tp RX UAF" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nppp: defer channel free to an RCU grace period to fix pppol2tp RX UAF\n\npppol2tp_recv() runs in the L2TP UDP-encap softirq RX path:\n\n l2tp_udp_encap_recv() -\u003e l2tp_recv_common() -\u003e pppol2tp_recv()\n -\u003e ppp_input(&po-\u003echan)\n\nIt runs under rcu_read_lock() holding only an l2tp_session reference and\ntakes NO reference on the internal PPP channel (struct channel,\nchan-\u003eppp) that ppp_input() dereferences.\n\nThe pppox socket is SOCK_RCU_FREE, so 'po' and the embedded ppp_channel\nare RCU-safe. But the internal struct channel is a separate allocation\nthat ppp_release_channel() frees with a plain kfree():\n\n close(data socket) -\u003e pppol2tp_release() -\u003e pppox_unbind_sock()\n -\u003e ppp_unregister_channel() -\u003e ppp_release_channel() -\u003e kfree(pch)\n\nFor a channel that is bound (PPPIOCGCHAN) but not attached to a ppp unit\n(no PPPIOCCONNECT, pch-\u003eppp == NULL) and not bridged, teardown skips\nboth ppp_disconnect_channel()'s synchronize_net() and\nppp_unbridge_channels()'s synchronize_rcu(), so the kfree() has no grace\nperiod. rcu_read_lock() in pppol2tp_recv() does not protect against a\nplain kfree(), so an in-flight ppp_input() on one CPU can dereference\nthe channel just freed by close() on another CPU.\n\nThe bug is reachable by an unprivileged user.\n\nDefer the channel free to an RCU callback via call_rcu() so the grace\nperiod fences any in-flight ppp_input(). The disconnect and unbridge\nteardown paths already fence with synchronize_net()/synchronize_rcu();\ncall_rcu() does the same here without stalling the close() path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ee40fb2e1eb5bc0ddd3f2f83c6e39a454ef5a741","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e47f1ac188ece11d6fdabe44166a2776cc5bd4e"},{"version":"ee40fb2e1eb5bc0ddd3f2f83c6e39a454ef5a741","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"110b765744b147c63882f5e9cb12931c5dc8d85f"},{"version":"ee40fb2e1eb5bc0ddd3f2f83c6e39a454ef5a741","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bb84e964ff0fe0a171c965362de72f9820dbce9"},{"version":"ee40fb2e1eb5bc0ddd3f2f83c6e39a454ef5a741","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ab32218d7182705dae5c86f13925f458072da2c"},{"version":"ee40fb2e1eb5bc0ddd3f2f83c6e39a454ef5a741","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9574b8a8edeb4edd3ac6472c27ef7184bdb2baa"},{"version":"ee40fb2e1eb5bc0ddd3f2f83c6e39a454ef5a741","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06213c85d8c0994f786c093b8b2a517987943ca6"},{"version":"ee40fb2e1eb5bc0ddd3f2f83c6e39a454ef5a741","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec4215683e47424c9c4762fd3c60f552a3119142"},{"version":"d36e5ba7bbed5d7bd26e8609ffed503c2def401b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9bcc0508576b2d50efd958f2ea1c5906749c2c89","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c2984681fe15cfb803a9132aaaf1140ab20a72c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5803ecd7f6ac6f747582e775caa62ac9d0489261","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"26f8819ddd10141ebe7bbce700fbab36bfa5f478","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.2.99","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"3.16.54","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.4.225","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.225","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.182","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"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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