Bug 2568425 (CVE-2026-100081) - CVE-2026-100081 kernel: kernel: xen-netback: Denial of Service via race condition during interface disconnect
Summary: CVE-2026-100081 kernel: kernel: xen-netback: Denial of Service via race condi...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-100081
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-06 18:31 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-06 18:40 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-06 18:31:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xen-netback: defer xenvif_mcast_addr_list_free()

In order for the function to legitimately avoid locking/RCU, it needs to
run after all TX/RX processing has finished/stopped: Lookups happen from
xenvif_start_xmit(), while adds/removes happen from xenvif_tx_action()
(called out of xenvif_poll()).

Move the call out of xenvif_disconnect_data() (the call to the function
from connect()'s error path doesn't require any cleaning up there), and
put it past the synchronization point in backend_disconnect().

This is XSA-527 / CVE-2026-100081.


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