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CVE-2026-64424— netpoll: fix a use-after-free on shutdown path

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Linux Linux
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会开源的一款操作系统内核。 Linux kernel 3.6版本存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于netpoll关闭路径上的释放后重用（use-after-free）问题。

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Affected Version Matrix 10

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux 38e6bc185d9544dfad1774b3f8902a0b061aea25< 95ecc5b58042f6b6743b589e6588f1cd7ba336aa affected
38e6bc185d9544dfad1774b3f8902a0b061aea25< a33f37f8d079da7236ed7b7e2aed2a34ab81e7cf affected
38e6bc185d9544dfad1774b3f8902a0b061aea25< 5ed09a108d93a3b002cc79823d9455b50c4a8be7 affected
38e6bc185d9544dfad1774b3f8902a0b061aea25< 45f1458a85017a023f138b22ac5c76abd477db42 affected
3.6 affected
< 3.6 unaffected
6.12.96≤ 6.12.* unaffected
6.18.39≤ 6.18.* unaffected
… +2 more rows
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-64424

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Vulnerability Title
netpoll: fix a use-after-free on shutdown path
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netpoll: fix a use-after-free on shutdown path There is a use-after-free error on netpoll, which is clearly detected by KASAN. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x80 Read of size 1 at addr ... by task kworker/9:1 Workqueue: events queue_process Call Trace: skb_dequeue+0x1e/0xb0 queue_process+0x2c/0x600 process_scheduled_works+0x4b6/0x850 worker_thread+0x414/0x5a0 Allocated by task 242: __netpoll_setup+0x201/0x4a0 netpoll_setup+0x249/0x550 enabled_store+0x32f/0x380 Freed by task 0: kfree+0x1b7/0x540 rcu_core+0x3f8/0x7a0 The problem happens when there is a pending TX worker running in parallel with the cleanup path. This is what happens on netpoll shutdown path: 1) __netpoll_cleanup() is called 2) set dev->npinfo to NULL 3) call_rcu() with rcu_cleanup_netpoll_info() 3.1) rcu_cleanup_netpoll_info() tries to cancel all workers with cancel_delayed_work(), but doesn't wait for the worker to finish 4) and kfree(npinfo); Because 3.1) doesn't really cancel the work, as the comment says "we can't call cancel_delayed_work_sync here, as we are in softirq", the TX worker can run after 4). Tl;DR: queue_process() is not an RCU reader, it reaches npinfo through the work item via container_of(). Use disable_delayed_work_sync() to ensure the worker is completely stopped and prevent any future re-arming attempts. Once npinfo is set to NULL, senders will bail out and not queue new work. The disable flag ensures any in-flight re-arming attempts also fail silently. In the future, we can do the cleanup inline here without needing the npinfo->rcu rcu_head, but that is net-next material.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会开源的一款操作系统内核。 Linux kernel 3.6版本存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于netpoll关闭路径上的释放后重用（use-after-free）问题。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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Linux Linux 38e6bc185d9544dfad1774b3f8902a0b061aea25 ~ 95ecc5b58042f6b6743b589e6588f1cd7ba336aa -
Linux Linux 3.6 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2026-64424 (4)

Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2026-07-25 · 274 CVEs total

CVE-2026-64355 9.8 CRITICAL bpf: Reject fragmented frames in devmap
CVE-2026-64459 9.8 CRITICAL tcp: restore RCU grace period in tcp_ao_destroy_sock
CVE-2026-64303 9.8 CRITICAL spi: fsl-lpspi: terminate the RX channel on TX prepare failure path
CVE-2026-64439 9.8 CRITICAL crypto: krb5 - filter out async aead implementations at alloc
CVE-2026-64410 9.8 CRITICAL netfilter: flowtable: IPIP tunnel hardware offload is not yet support
CVE-2026-64399 9.8 CRITICAL ksmbd: add permission checks for FSCTL_DUPLICATE_EXTENTS_TO_FILE
CVE-2026-64397 9.8 CRITICAL ksmbd: serialize QUERY_DIRECTORY requests per file
CVE-2026-64391 9.8 CRITICAL ksmbd: use opener credentials for ADS I/O
CVE-2026-64387 9.8 CRITICAL smb: client: fix query directory replay double-free
CVE-2026-64386 9.8 CRITICAL smb: client: fix query_info() replay double-free
CVE-2026-64385 9.8 CRITICAL smb: client: fix double-free in SMB2_ioctl() replay
CVE-2026-64383 9.8 CRITICAL smb: client: fix double-free in SMB2_flush() replay
CVE-2026-64384 9.8 CRITICAL smb: client: fix change notify replay double-free
CVE-2026-64268 9.8 CRITICAL RDMA/siw: bound Read Response placement to the RREAD length
CVE-2026-64523 9.8 CRITICAL net/handshake: Take a long-lived file reference at submit
CVE-2026-64269 9.1 CRITICAL RDMA/rtrs-srv: Bound RDMA-Write length to chunk size in rdma_write_sg
CVE-2026-64257 9.1 CRITICAL smb: client: reject overlapping data areas in SMB2 responses
CVE-2026-64319 9.1 CRITICAL nvmet-auth: validate reply message payload bounds against transfer length
CVE-2026-64320 9.1 CRITICAL nvmet: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds heap read in Discovery Get Log Page
CVE-2026-64393 9.1 CRITICAL ksmbd: run set info with opener credentials

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