CVE-2026-45998

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45998
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-45998.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-45998
Downstream
Published
2026-05-27T12:55:52.756Z
Modified
2026-05-29T04:03:05.310352329Z
Summary
rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure
Details

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

rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure

If skbunshare() fails to unshare a packet due to allocation failure in rxrpcinputpacket(), the skb pointer in the parent (rxrpciothread()) will be NULL'd out. This will likely cause the call to tracerxrpcrxdone() to oops.

Fix this by moving the unsharing down to where rxrpcinputcallevent() calls rxrpcinputcallpacket(). 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, rxrpcinputpacket() doesn't need to take a pointer to the pointer to the packet, so change that to just a pointer.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/45xxx/CVE-2026-45998.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2d1faf7a0ca3c0b327cf064c80e4e775532c9319
Fixed
e3bf143b1e98fb3d6d9e6825bcd683974d478e8c
Fixed
bf20f46d94f1db38e6ffc0ca204a5fe0de01b495
Fixed
996b0487b3cdda4c91811dbb1c9564626bc840bd
Fixed
8fde6296c4d4da2be7ab761305ab7f232b94eefd
Fixed
1f2740150f904bfa60e4bad74d65add3ccb5e7f8

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-45998.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.140
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.86
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.27
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.0.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-45998.json"