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CVE-2026-72338— net/sched: act_pedit: fix TOCTOU heap OOB write in tc offload

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Linux Linux
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会开源的一个操作系统内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于net/sched: act_pedit存在TOCTOU竞争条件，可能导致攻击者将控制内容堆越界写入相邻slab对象，需要CAP_NET_ADMIN权限。

CVSS 7.8 · High EPSS 0.17% · P6

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

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Affected Version Matrix 12

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux 71d0ed7079dffbc5cd0941d77d9b84e04109c9bb< 0d8532a5e972a5351cf4ee4a435e0d65cbba8f23 affected
71d0ed7079dffbc5cd0941d77d9b84e04109c9bb< 27488e1a7f19757e6146edca9458ed4ffc545557 affected
71d0ed7079dffbc5cd0941d77d9b84e04109c9bb< 6f9b23eb92a894ae1118893996943990ee0b860e affected
71d0ed7079dffbc5cd0941d77d9b84e04109c9bb< 8e49cd891bda447c68122d672510a604a8bb6b24 affected
71d0ed7079dffbc5cd0941d77d9b84e04109c9bb< 8b519cbcabe836a441369fbec1a8a6518a709251 affected
4.11 affected
< 4.11 unaffected
6.6.145≤ 6.6.* unaffected
… +4 more rows
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-72338

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Vulnerability Title
net/sched: act_pedit: fix TOCTOU heap OOB write in tc offload
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_pedit: fix TOCTOU heap OOB write in tc offload There is a TOCTOU race condition in flower lockless approach between sizing a flow_rule buffer and filling it. zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com reports: The cls_flower classifier operates with TCF_PROTO_OPS_DOIT_UNLOCKED (fl_change runs without RTNL), while RTM_NEWACTION holds RTNL, so the independent locking domains make the race reachable in practice. KASAN confirms: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in tcf_pedit_offload_act_setup+0x81b/0x930 Write of size 4 at addr ffff888001f27520 by task poc-toctou/312 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 288-byte region [ffff888001f27400, ffff888001f27520) (cache kmalloc-512) Note: The result is a heap OOB write attacker-controlled content into the adjacent slab object (requires CAP_NET_ADMIN). The fix introduces reading tcfp_nkeys under act->tcfa_lock in all places using a new tcf_pedit_nkeys_locked() which replaces the old tcf_pedit_nkeys(). Additionally we close the remaining TOCTOU window between the sizing read and the fill reads by more careful accounting. Rather than silently truncating the key count, which leads to incorrect action semantics offloaded to hardware and secondary OOB writes if the remaining capacity is zero or consumed by prior actions, we enforce remaining capacity checks and return -ENOSPC if the required space exceeds the remaining capacity.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
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基金会开源的一个操作系统内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于net/sched: act_pedit存在TOCTOU竞争条件，可能导致攻击者将控制内容堆越界写入相邻slab对象，需要CAP_NET_ADMIN权限。
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 71d0ed7079dffbc5cd0941d77d9b84e04109c9bb ~ 0d8532a5e972a5351cf4ee4a435e0d65cbba8f23 -
Linux Linux 4.11 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2026-72338 (5)

Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2026-08-15 · 845 CVEs total

CVE-2026-74280 10.0 CRITICAL crypto: marvell/octeontx - fix DMA cleanup using wrong loop index
CVE-2026-74309 10.0 CRITICAL vdpa/octeon_ep: fix IRQ-to-ring mapping in interrupt handler
CVE-2026-74279 10.0 CRITICAL crypto: cavium/cpt - fix DMA cleanup using wrong loop index
CVE-2026-74475 10.0 CRITICAL vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()
CVE-2026-72407 10.0 CRITICAL geneve: validate inner network offset in geneve_gro_complete()
CVE-2026-72408 10.0 CRITICAL geneve: gate GRO hint in geneve_gro_complete() on gs->gro_hint
CVE-2026-72421 10.0 CRITICAL ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables.
CVE-2026-72493 9.9 CRITICAL net: serialize netif_running() check in enqueue_to_backlog()
CVE-2026-72472 9.8 CRITICAL nfs: use nfsi->rwsem to protect traversal of the file lock list
CVE-2026-74428 9.8 CRITICAL rxrpc: Fix double unlock in rxrpc_recvmsg()
CVE-2026-72473 9.8 CRITICAL xprtrdma: Decouple req recycling from RPC completion
CVE-2026-72098 9.8 CRITICAL dm-verity: fix buffer overflow in FEC calculation
CVE-2026-74433 9.8 CRITICAL rxrpc: Fix UAF in rxgk_issue_challenge()
CVE-2026-74434 9.8 CRITICAL rxrpc: Don't move a peeked OOB message onto the pending queue
CVE-2026-72299 9.8 CRITICAL tipc: restrict socket queue dumps in enqueue tracepoints
CVE-2026-72477 9.8 CRITICAL fs/ntfs3: call _ntfs_bad_inode() when failing to rename
CVE-2026-72249 9.8 CRITICAL netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header
CVE-2026-72251 9.8 CRITICAL netfilter: nf_nat_sip: reload possible stale data pointer
CVE-2026-72130 9.8 CRITICAL nvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers
CVE-2026-72137 9.8 CRITICAL xfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error

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