rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure If skb_unshare() fails to unshare a packet due to allocation failure in rxrpc_input_packet(), the skb pointer in the parent (rxrpc_io_thread()) will be NULL'd out. This will likely cause the call to trace_rxrpc_rx_done() to oops. Fix this by moving the unsharing down to where rxrpc_input_call_event() calls rxrpc_input_call_packet(). There are a number of places prior to that where we ignore DATA packets for a variety of reasons (such as the call already being complete) for which an unshare is then avoided. And with that, rxrpc_input_packet() doesn't need to take a pointer to the pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure If skb_unshare() fails to unshare a packet due to allocation failure in rxrpc_input_packet(), the skb pointer in the parent (rxrpc_io_thread()) will be NULL'd out. This will likely cause the call to trace_rxrpc_rx_done() to oops. Fix this by moving the unsharing down to where rxrpc_input_call_event() calls rxrpc_input_call_packet(). There are a number of places prior to that where we ignore DATA packets for a variety of reasons (such as the call already being complete) for which an unshare is then avoided. And with that, rxrpc_input_packet() doesn't need to take a pointer to the pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34911
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45998
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482024
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f2740150f904bfa60e4bad74d65add3ccb5e7f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fde6296c4d4da2be7ab761305ab7f232b94eefd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/996b0487b3cdda4c91811dbb1c9564626bc840bd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf20f46d94f1db38e6ffc0ca204a5fe0de01b495
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3bf143b1e98fb3d6d9e6825bcd683974d478e8c
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/45xxx/CVE-2026-45998.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45998
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45998.json