CVE-2026-64563

rhashtable: clear stale iter->p on table restart

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 4, 2026 at 06:23 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rhashtable: clear stale iter->p on table restart rhashtable_walk_start_check() has two restart paths when resuming a walk. When iter->walker.tbl is valid, it re-validates iter->p against the table and sets iter->p = NULL if the object is gone. When iter->walker.tbl is NULL (table was freed during resize), it resets slot and skip but forgets to clear iter->p. rhashtable_walk_next() then dereferences the stale iter->p, reading freed memory. This is a use-after-free. Any caller that does multi-fragment rhashtable walks across walk_stop/walk_start boundaries is affected. Concrete cases include netlink_diag (__netlink_diag_dump in net/netlink/diag.c) and TIPC (tipc_nl_sk_walk in net/tipc/socket.c). Crash stack (netlink_diag): BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rhashtable_walk_next+0x365/0x3c0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801a9d2438 (freed kmalloc-2k, offset 1080) Call Trace: rhashtable_walk_next+0x365/0x3c0 (lib/rhashtable.c:1016) __netlink_diag_dump+0x160/0x760 (net/netlink/diag.c:122) netlink_diag_dump+0xc2/0x240 netlink_dump+0x5bc/0x1270 netlink_recvmsg+0x7a3/0x980 sock_recvmsg+0x1bc/0x200 __sys_recvfrom+0x1d4/0x2c0

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.185d240a8936f6a1d3ece06701e8c4d830a2eca8a8
Vendor states this is fixed in 042fda5c088015f18838e5c692659a7be60aeb26 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0955b65c2b47c30b439e2cf1b1e375073aa0413a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3ff7c1dbf722cf3fa538672452ba182318e0fcc3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4169d9fb92f313ff8e7e83d733c1ecdcc93eebd3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8173f7e2ce67e6ca1d4763f3da14e5b01ce77456 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a0406c40c6638c5ae50257db6297b2fba6c9ba16 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ba510b5e9fe396497d31162acb579f210adfe6c8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c39643ad99fea749be50615550e8f0e6d6e60694 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.103 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.151 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusRECEIVED
CWE
CWE-416

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