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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97611" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:20.827Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:10:15.022Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-97611" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97611.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97611" title: "net: openvswitch: fix use-after-free of the flow table mask array" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: openvswitch: fix use-after-free of the flow table mask array\n\ntbl_mask_array_realloc() retires the old mask_array before it stops being\nreachable:\n\n\told = ovsl_dereference(tbl-\u003emask_array);\n\tif (old) {\n\t\t...\n\t\tcall_rcu(&old-\u003ercu, mask_array_rcu_cb);\n\t}\n\n\trcu_assign_pointer(tbl-\u003emask_array, new);\n\ncall_rcu() only waits for read-side critical sections already in flight.\ntbl-\u003emask_array still points at old between the call_rcu() and the\nrcu_assign_pointer(), so a reader entering ovs_flow_tbl_lookup_stats() in\nthat window picks up old in a fresh critical section that the pending\ngrace period does not cover.\n\ntbl_mask_array_realloc() runs in process context under ovs_mutex, so the\nwindow is preemptible and can outlast the grace period. Then\nmask_array_rcu_cb() frees old before the swap runs:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in flow_lookup.constprop.0+0x2bf/0x2f0\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff888020b3e018 by task poc/741\n flow_lookup.constprop.0+0x2bf/0x2f0\n ovs_flow_tbl_lookup_stats+0x4a3/0x5c0\n ovs_dp_process_packet+0x19c/0x710\n ovs_vport_receive+0x243/0x390\n internal_dev_xmit+0x81/0x170\n Freed by task 728:\n kfree+0x16a/0x4e0\n rcu_core+0x853/0x1030\n\nPublish the new array before retiring the old one. The kfree_rcu() that\ncall_rcu() replaced ran after the swap." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c98b492e9ed63f9ca3e23566d9a6a4f235944f4"},{"version":"eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4016ead17acd75312c066ecd47c4b7f0a81ceaa2"},{"version":"eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"017dbbf0d6c319a487f68e22f56d91fc787d5525"},{"version":"eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76678217cdabc41e3c74c23b45b62086ffb8fe7a"},{"version":"eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd982e11684def5d4a9fcfd5354de09032828414"},{"version":"eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0d18d21d48a551f82ee344e50efb8a682161489"},{"version":"eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"035e9c3722067648a99010711d0ce81f42572ef4"},{"version":"eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba4ba11ed6eb8972c69070417fc27b48deb002e8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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