CVE-2026-22987 (GCVE-0-2026-22987)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-23 15:24 – Updated: 2026-01-23 15:24
VLAI?
Title
net/sched: act_api: avoid dereferencing ERR_PTR in tcf_idrinfo_destroy
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: act_api: avoid dereferencing ERR_PTR in tcf_idrinfo_destroy
syzbot reported a crash in tc_act_in_hw() during netns teardown where
tcf_idrinfo_destroy() passed an ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) value as a tc_action
pointer, leading to an invalid dereference.
Guard against ERR_PTR entries when iterating the action IDR so teardown
does not call tc_act_in_hw() on an error pointer.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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