CVE-2026-22987 (GCVE-0-2026-22987)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-23 15:24 – Updated: 2026-01-23 15:24
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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.
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Linux Linux Affected: 84a7d6797e6a03705e6b48c613fa424662049d87 , < 67550a1130b647bb0d093c9c0a810c69aa6a30a8 (git)
Affected: 84a7d6797e6a03705e6b48c613fa424662049d87 , < adb25a46dc0a43173f5ea5f5f58fc8ba28970c7c (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.6 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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