CVE-2026-52993

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-415 Double Free

Publication date:

24/06/2026

Last modified:

15/07/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append() tipc_msg_validate() can potentially reallocate the skb it is validating, freeing the old one. In tipc_buf_append(), it was being called with a pointer to a local variable which was a copy of the caller&#39;s skb pointer. If the skb was reallocated and validation subsequently failed, the error handling path would free the original skb pointer, which had already been freed, leading to double-free. Fix this by checking if head now points to a newly allocated reassembled skb. If it does, reassign *headbuf for later freeing operations.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	5.10.258 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.209 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.175 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.141 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.91 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.18.33 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.19 (including)	7.0.10 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2026-52993

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools