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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98230"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:04.548Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:02.121Z"
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-2026-98230"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98230.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98230"
title: "xfrm: use hlist_del_init_rcu for state_cache and state_cache_input"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: use hlist_del_init_rcu for state_cache and state_cache_input\n\nCommit 14acf9652e56 (\"xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in\n__xfrm_state_delete\") converted bydst/bysrc/byseq/byspi from\nhlist_del_rcu() to hlist_del_init_rcu() so that a second\n__xfrm_state_delete() on the same object becomes a no-op rather than a\nwrite through LIST_POISON pprev. It missed state_cache and\nstate_cache_input, which kept hlist_del_rcu():\n\n- hlist_del_rcu() leaves pprev = LIST_POISON2 (non-NULL), so\n  hlist_unhashed() returns false.\n- hlist_del_init_rcu() leaves pprev = NULL, so hlist_unhashed()\n  returns true.\n\nA second __xfrm_state_delete() therefore enters __hlist_del() on the\nalready-deleted state_cache/state_cache_input nodes and does\nWRITE_ONCE(*pprev, next) through LIST_POISON2 — a write use-after-free\nonce the slab is reused. The corruption can in turn cause a subsequent\nhlist_for_each_entry_rcu traversal to follow a dangling next pointer,\nproducing the read use-after-free reported in xfrm_input_state_lookup().\n\nSwitch state_cache and state_cache_input to hlist_del_init_rcu() to\nmatch the other four lists, closing the write use-after-free and, with\nit, the read use-after-free it spawns."
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