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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98104" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:35:54.544Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:13:56.808Z" 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-2026-98104" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98104.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98104" title: "net/sched: cls_u32: fix duplicate handle when node ID pool is exhausted" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: cls_u32: fix duplicate handle when node ID pool is exhausted\n\ngen_new_kid() falls back to returning max (htid | 0xFFF) when both\nidr_alloc_u32() ranges are full, instead of reporting an error.\nu32_change() trusts that value and inserts a new knode with a handle\nthat is already live in the hash table, breaking handle uniqueness\nwithin the table's node ID space.\n\nThe handle was never reserved in ht-\u003ehandle_idr, so every later error\npath that does idr_remove(&ht-\u003ehandle_idr, handle) removes the\nreservation of a different, live knode, which is then reused — one\nfailed add compounds into further duplicates.\n\nThe 4095 limit is per (table, bucket) — ht-\u003ehandle_idr is per hash\ntable and the range is derived from htid (bucketid), so a table with\ndivisor 256 can legitimately hold 256*4095 knodes.\n\nThe sibling helper gen_new_htid() has the same silent in-band failure:\nit returns 0 when the tp_c handle pool (1..0x7FF) is full, and\nu32_init() publishes the root hash table with handle 0 without\nchecking. Two root tables with handle 0 alias in u32_lookup_ht(),\nallowing cross-tcf_proto knode add/lookup/delete. Add the same\nexhaustion check that the divisor path already has.\n\nReturn an error so u32_change() fails with ENOSPC/ENOMEM when the\nnode ID space is exhausted, and so u32_init() fails with -ENOMEM\nwhen the hash table ID space is exhausted. The extack message\ndistinguishes pool exhaustion (-ENOSPC) from a transient allocation\nfailure (-ENOMEM).\n\nConditions to recreate the bug:\n- CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y, CONFIG_CLS_U32=y (or =m with module loaded)\n- Create a clsact qdisc on a device, then add 4095 u32 filters with\n auto-generated handles to fill the node ID space for the root hash\n table (single bucket). The 4096th auto-handle filter add triggers\n the duplicate handle (fh 800::fff reused). Reachable at Level 2\n (unshare -Urn, namespace-local CAP_NET_ADMIN).\n- For gen_new_htid: create 2047 u32 proto entries on the same block\n to fill the tp_c handle pool, then create one more. The root table\n gets handle 0 and aliases with other handle-0 root tables." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7801db8aec957fa6610efe0ee26a6c8bc0f1d73b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4ee13ed7f7b22dcd8287fcf477ae37bd84567da"},{"version":"7801db8aec957fa6610efe0ee26a6c8bc0f1d73b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84223baf21bc9b008444ae9bc38d5fb91fe00b9d"},{"version":"7801db8aec957fa6610efe0ee26a6c8bc0f1d73b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6890e28840bae4f6805e8de981c4ec8e12a4e064"},{"version":"7801db8aec957fa6610efe0ee26a6c8bc0f1d73b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"feab9261b537df4ebb8350e4779bc185373059fd"},{"version":"7801db8aec957fa6610efe0ee26a6c8bc0f1d73b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f594f04268d01c5fdc975f3f51fc219ea2159ac6"},{"version":"7801db8aec957fa6610efe0ee26a6c8bc0f1d73b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7e7e98d23f42a92d9ab7e36302bd96bd9b33b5f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.16"},{"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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