Bug 2513225 (CVE-2026-68341) - CVE-2026-68341 kernel: ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn()
Summary: CVE-2026-68341 kernel: ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68341
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:25 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-13 17:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:25:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovpn: fix use after free in unlock_ovpn()

unlock_ovpn() iterates over the release_list using llist_for_each_entry()
and drops the peer reference inside the loop body via ovpn_peer_put().

If this drops the last reference, the peer is eventually freed. However,
llist_for_each_entry() reads peer->release_entry.next in the loop advance
expression, which runs after the body. By that time the peer may have
already been freed, resulting in a use after free when advancing to the
next list entry.

Fix this by using llist_for_each_entry_safe(), which caches the next
pointer before executing the loop body.


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