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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97958" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:03.753Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:11:24.306Z" 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-2026-97958" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97958.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97958" title: "net/sched: cls_api: Don't replay RTM_GETCHAIN in tc_ctl_chain()." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: cls_api: Don't replay RTM_GETCHAIN in tc_ctl_chain().\n\nIf a netlink socket sends RTM_GETCHAIN requests repeatedly\nwithout recv()ing the responses, tc_ctl_chain() hogs CPU and\ntriggers Hung Task splat. [0]\n\nAs caught in the stack trace, netlink_attachskb() could confuse\ntc_ctl_chain() by returning -EAGAIN when the userspace netlink\nsocket's receive buffer is full.\n\nThe replay: label exists since commit 32a4f5ecd738 (\"net: sched:\nintroduce chain object to uapi\") but was not used initially.\n\nSince commit 9f407f1768d3 (\"net: sched: introduce chain templates\"),\nthe label is needed for RTM_NEWCHAIN because tcf_proto_lookup_ops()\nmay release RTNL to call request_module().\n\nHowever, the replay logic is unnecessary for RTM_GETCHAIN.\n\nLet's apply the replay logic only for RTM_NEWCHAIN.\n\n[0]:\nINFO: task repro:1018 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task repro:1022.\ntask:repro state:R running task stack:14096 pid:1022 tgid:1014 ppid:961 task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080000\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? clockevents_program_event (kernel/time/clockevents.c:372)\n ? pskb_expand_head (net/core/skbuff.c:615)\n ? skb_release_data (net/core/skbuff.c:1122)\n ? netlink_attachskb (./include/linux/skbuff.h:1323 ./include/linux/skbuff.h:1332 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1232)\n ? __netlink_lookup (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:882 ./include/linux/rhashtable.h:711 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:499)\n ? tc_chain_notify (net/sched/cls_api.c:3045)\n ? tc_chain_notify (./include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 net/sched/cls_api.c:3041)\n ? netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1335)\n ? rtnl_unicast (./include/net/netlink.h:1198 net/core/rtnetlink.c:985)\n ? tc_ctl_chain (net/sched/cls_api.c:3242)\n ? rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7146)\n ? netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1354)\n ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7177)\n ? netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556)\n ? netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319)\n ? netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900)\n ? __sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:800)\n ? __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2281)\n ? __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2288 net/socket.c:2284 net/socket.c:2284)\n ? do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84)\n ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n \u003c/TASK\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2ed9db3074fcd8d12709fe40ff0e691d74229818","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"240251a4ca7cda213103694b6e21c4a5745e5d8b"},{"version":"2ed9db3074fcd8d12709fe40ff0e691d74229818","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a0f07f7dbd1bfe8c2fd03ad055e9e60a703d5df"},{"version":"2ed9db3074fcd8d12709fe40ff0e691d74229818","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6558b0d46c5941ed1aa67da8878e224c54239cc5"},{"version":"2ed9db3074fcd8d12709fe40ff0e691d74229818","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96c2fc5daf983af2e0c1256c31e89c1f3f855279"},{"version":"2ed9db3074fcd8d12709fe40ff0e691d74229818","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a1c2840d95af1fa3d83ba71e23fa0c674a4c6796"},{"version":"2ed9db3074fcd8d12709fe40ff0e691d74229818","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"503ba58481e3ba69d28127d35a39cec529f9670c"},{"version":"2ed9db3074fcd8d12709fe40ff0e691d74229818","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9ac395bb56122a057d0aa91a6b55d9e3fa37c26"},{"version":"2ed9db3074fcd8d12709fe40ff0e691d74229818","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dff39930ad5e53d202bfdfb14687d1d2fd753b4d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"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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