Bug 2507209 (CVE-2026-64423)

Summary:	CVE-2026-64423 kernel: ipv4: igmp: remove multicast group from hash table on device destruction
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) multicast group handling. When a network device is destroyed, its associated multicast groups are not properly removed from the device's hash table before their memory is reclaimed. This creates a race condition where a local attacker with low privileges could exploit this use-after-free vulnerability to cause system instability, escalate privileges, or potentially execute arbitrary code.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-25 10:10:46 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv4: igmp: remove multicast group from hash table on device destruction

When a device is destroyed under RTNL, ip_mc_destroy_dev() iterates through
the multicast list and calls ip_ma_put() on each membership, scheduling
them for RCU reclamation. However, they are not unlinked from the device's
multicast hash table (mc_hash).

Since the device remains published in dev->ip_ptr until after
ip_mc_destroy_dev() completes, concurrent RCU readers traversing mc_hash
can still locate and access the multicast group after its refcount is
decremented. If the RCU callback runs and frees the group while a reader is
accessing it, a use-after-free occurs.

Fix this by unlinking the multicast group from mc_hash using
ip_mc_hash_remove() before scheduling it for reclamation.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ip_check_mc_rcu+0x149/0x3f0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888009bf1408 by task mausezahn/2276

Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x67/0x90
 print_report+0x175/0x7c0
 kasan_report+0x147/0x180
 ip_check_mc_rcu+0x149/0x3f0
 udp_v4_early_demux+0x36d/0x12d0
 ip_rcv_finish_core+0xb8b/0x1390
 ip_rcv_finish+0x54/0x120
 NF_HOOK+0x213/0x2b0
 __netif_receive_skb+0x126/0x340
 process_backlog+0x4f2/0xf00
 __napi_poll+0x92/0x2c0
 net_rx_action+0x583/0xc60
 handle_softirqs+0x236/0x7f0
 do_softirq+0x57/0x80
 </IRQ>

Allocated by task 2239:
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x72/0x90
 ____ip_mc_inc_group+0x31a/0xa40
 __ip_mc_join_group+0x334/0x3f0
 do_ip_setsockopt+0x16fa/0x2010
 ip_setsockopt+0x3f/0x90
 do_sock_setsockopt+0x1ad/0x300

Freed by task 0:
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50
 __kasan_slab_free+0x3a/0x60
 __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0xd4/0x220
 rcu_free_sheaf+0x36/0x190
 rcu_core+0x8d9/0x12f0
 handle_softirqs+0x236/0x7f0

Comment 1 TEJ RATHI 2026-07-29 11:21:05 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026072535-CVE-2026-64423-4583@gregkh/T