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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-99053" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:22:35.462Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:22:35.462Z" 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-2026-99053" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99053.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99053" title: "tipc: hold a reference to nodes found by link name" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: hold a reference to nodes found by link name\n\ntipc_node_find_by_name() returns a node after dropping its RCU read lock\nwithout taking a reference. The LINK_SET, LINK_GET and LINK_RESET_STATS\nhandlers then lock and access the node, racing with timer-driven cleanup of\na down peer. Generic netlink serialization does not exclude the node\ntimer.\n\nThe following interleaving can leave a handler using a freed node:\n\n CPU 0: find the node under RCU and release the node read lock\n CPU 1: tipc_node_timeout() clears the links and unlinks the down node\n CPU 1: drop the list and timer references, queuing tipc_node_free()\n CPU 0: leave the RCU read-side critical section\n CPU 1: complete the grace period and free the node\n CPU 0: acquire the node lock through the stale pointer\n\nLINK_SET also uses the node's media address after releasing the node lock,\nwhen passing queued packets to tipc_bearer_xmit().\n\nKASAN on v7.3-rc5 reported:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_read_lock_bh\n Write of size 4 at addr ffff88807e06f008 by task poc/92\n Call Trace:\n _raw_read_lock_bh kernel/locking/spinlock.c:287\n tipc_nl_node_set_link net/tipc/node.c:2475\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114\n genl_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209\n netlink_rcv_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2575\n\n Allocated by task 0:\n tipc_node_create net/tipc/node.c:539\n tipc_node_check_dest net/tipc/node.c:1196\n tipc_disc_rcv net/tipc/discover.c:252\n\n Freed by task 92:\n kfree mm/slub.c:6801\n rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2919\n\n Last potentially related work creation:\n __call_rcu_common.constprop.0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3181\n tipc_node_timeout net/tipc/node.c:814\n\nAcquire a reference to the selected node with kref_get_unless_zero() before\nleaving RCU, returning NULL if the node has already been released. Release\nthat reference on every caller exit after the last node access, including\ntransmission in LINK_SET. Keep the existing link lookup order and locking\nso concurrent link removal still takes the existing error paths." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b60259d4047fbb735476c729dcf9306a038b6110"},{"version":"6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f17e70206a1e763fcca2578a8db3c4eed0f843a9"},{"version":"6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1428c5f1d346a2e1ac9156713975a72246957009"},{"version":"6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c3b308ee6e25729a6cf09b69cdd0e093220d40b"},{"version":"6a939f365bdb03a74b4617bdb4402fc08da088b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17e73bae400f6a434dc006e3bee92c94cf781954"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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