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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74615" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:00.588Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:06:02.032Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74615" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74615.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74615" title: "vxlan: do not arm the ageing timer on a device that is down" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: do not arm the ageing timer on a device that is down\n\nvxlan_changelink() arms vxlan-\u003eage_timer whenever the requested ageing\ninterval differs from the configured one:\n\n\tif (conf.age_interval != vxlan-\u003ecfg.age_interval)\n\t\tmod_timer(&vxlan-\u003eage_timer, jiffies);\n\nThere is no netif_running() test, so the timer is armed even on a device\nthat was never brought up. The only synchronous cancel in the driver is\nthe timer_delete_sync() in vxlan_stop(), which is .ndo_stop.\nnetif_close_many() drops devices without IFF_UP before\n__dev_close_many() runs, so that cancel is skipped for such a device.\n\nvxlan_setup() sets dev-\u003eneeds_free_netdev = true and age_timer is a\nmember of struct vxlan_dev, so free_netdev() releases the allocation the\ntimer lives in while it is still queued on a timer_base.\nexpire_timers() unlinks the entry before it loads timer-\u003efunction, so\nthe timer core writes through the freed object's list pointers:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __run_timers+0x208/0x654\n Write of size 8 at addr ffff00001adace68 by task true/192\n __asan_store8+0x84/0xac\n __run_timers+0x208/0x654\n run_timer_softirq+0x154/0x18c\n Allocated by task 189:\n alloc_netdev_mqs+0x64/0x720\n rtnl_create_link+0x4ac/0x520\n rtnl_newlink+0x758/0xd00\n Freed by task 191:\n netdev_release+0x40/0x58\n netdev_run_todo+0x4a4/0x8c0\n rtnl_dellink+0x200/0x4e8\n\nThe rtnl operations involved are netns-scoped, so an unprivileged user\ncan perform them in a new user and network namespace.\n\nArming the timer on a down device never had an effect: vxlan_cleanup()\nreturns early on !netif_running(), and vxlan_open() arms the timer for\nany non-zero interval once the device is brought up. Add the missing\ntest.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee \u003cbaul.lee@xbow.com\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"40051c4dcad5b374156ad9cceae8d15c0ef1cb95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be44d79d14d7f9ae7c8ffb7272142005341b5123"},{"version":"40051c4dcad5b374156ad9cceae8d15c0ef1cb95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26c179d47403d2f919ee914cc02c31d896b59fee"},{"version":"40051c4dcad5b374156ad9cceae8d15c0ef1cb95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9dc561f0522c35bdd66e0646a748814a138ec4ca"},{"version":"40051c4dcad5b374156ad9cceae8d15c0ef1cb95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"619dd29045e439d0b0f8c6d4fec1af447a050680"},{"version":"40051c4dcad5b374156ad9cceae8d15c0ef1cb95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b095e99b9e67ea31f0c4b00260e010898253519"},{"version":"40051c4dcad5b374156ad9cceae8d15c0ef1cb95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46bb297ad77680e009244f067f27d51cf5b8c7cf"},{"version":"40051c4dcad5b374156ad9cceae8d15c0ef1cb95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b4119af544996a545cf84b16f1dbce829ba0de8"},{"version":"40051c4dcad5b374156ad9cceae8d15c0ef1cb95","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b37971686ec59fb027fa4910ba16805e68fddb97"}],"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":"6.6.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","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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