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CVE-2026-53227

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
25/06/2026
Last modified:
02/07/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR<br /> <br /> After the patch in the "Fixes" tag, the allocation of the "reply" skb<br /> can happen either before or after locking the ovs_mutex.<br /> <br /> However, error cleanups still follow the classical reversed order,<br /> assuming "reply" is allocated before locking: it is freed after unlocking.<br /> <br /> If "reply" allocation happens after locking the mutex and it fails,<br /> "reply" is left with an ERR_PTR, and execution jumps to the correspondent<br /> cleanup stage which will try to free an invalid pointer.<br /> <br /> Fix this by setting the pointer to NULL after having saved its error<br /> value.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.16 (including) 5.10.259 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.11 (including) 5.15.210 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.16 (including) 6.1.176 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.2 (including) 6.6.143 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.7 (including) 6.12.94 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.13 (including) 6.18.36 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.19 (including) 7.0.13 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

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