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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98231" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:05.183Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:03.101Z" 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-2026-98231" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98231.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98231" title: "xfrm: serialize state GC with device state flush" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: serialize state GC with device state flush\n\nThe deferred-device pass in xfrm_dev_state_flush() finds states under\nxfrm_state_dev_gc_lock, but drops the lock before calling\nxfrm_dev_state_free() because the driver callback may sleep. The device\nGC list does not hold an xfrm_state reference, so the state GC worker can\ndestroy the same state concurrently.\n\nThe race can proceed as follows:\n\n CPU 0 CPU 1\n find x on the device GC list\n drop xfrm_state_dev_gc_lock\n read x-\u003exso.dev\n xfrm_state_gc_destroy(x)\n xfrm_dev_state_free(x)\n xfrm_state_free(x)\n continue xfrm_dev_state_free(x)\n\nBoth paths can invoke the driver callback and drop the device reference.\nCPU 0 can also access the xfrm_state after CPU 1 has freed it.\n\nKASAN reported:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in xfrm_dev_state_free+0x24c/0x2a0\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810bbaa960 by task poc/102\n\n Call Trace:\n xfrm_dev_state_free+0x24c/0x2a0\n xfrm_dev_state_flush+0x353/0x400\n xfrm_dev_event+0x26d/0x3a0\n notifier_call_chain+0xc0/0x280\n __dev_notify_flags+0x169/0x250\n netif_change_flags+0xe7/0x160\n dev_change_flags+0x96/0x220\n devinet_ioctl+0x7f4/0x1880\n\n Allocated by task 87:\n xfrm_state_alloc+0x1e/0x5c0\n xfrm_add_sa+0xe7f/0x5820\n xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x4f3/0x940\n\n Freed by task 57:\n kmem_cache_free+0xcb/0x3d0\n xfrm_state_gc_task+0x4a8/0x650\n process_one_work+0x63a/0x1070\n\nSerialize xfrm_state destruction against the deferred-device pass with a\nmutex. Keep xfrm_state_dev_gc_lock limited to list operations and retain\nthe existing callback and device-reference release ordering." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d5f53edd43daf3e6e1633a49c561387f8f99e13f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"937108dc0258d6ac69926b00bc53598c98986ee1"},{"version":"07b87f9eea0c30675084d50c82532d20168da009","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39e41af3653ee45c985190dd97426f318918d201"},{"version":"07b87f9eea0c30675084d50c82532d20168da009","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75fc4561772e2f9811abf39ed10443e6f4a4bc6c"},{"version":"07b87f9eea0c30675084d50c82532d20168da009","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84e378395494963b1e581cf223a7cbeec8c0e2d6"},{"version":"07b87f9eea0c30675084d50c82532d20168da009","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89fefad9f971bc637fb22373078144f2563c4be9"},{"version":"8ecee44464a4926c9bef989a1490b7394785f584","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.44","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.158"},{"version":"6.10.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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