CVE-2026-23378
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_ife: Fix metalist update behavior Whenever an ife action replace changes the metalist, instead of replacing the old data on the metalist, the current ife code is appending the new metadata. Aside from being innapropriate behavior, this may lead to an unbounded addition of metadata to the metalist which might cause an out of bounds error when running the encode op: [ 138.423369][ C1] ================================================================== [ 138.424317][ C1] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168) [ 138.424906][ C1] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880077f4ffe by task ife_out_out_bou/255 [ 138.425778][ C1] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 255 Comm: ife_out_out_bou Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1-00169-gfbdfa8da05b6 #624 PREEMPT(full) [ 138.425795][ C1] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 [ 138.425800][ C1] Call Trace: [ 138.425804][ C1] <IRQ> [ 138.425808][ C1] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122) [ 138.425828][ C1] print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482) [ 138.425839][ C1] ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221) [ 138.425844][ C1] ? __virt_addr_valid (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:95 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:975 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/mmzone.h:2207 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:54 (discriminator 1)) [ 138.425853][ C1] ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168) [ 138.425859][ C1] kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:221 mm/kasan/report.c:597) [ 138.425868][ C1] ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168) [ 138.425878][ C1] kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:186 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/generic.c:200 (discriminator 1)) [ 138.425884][ C1] __asan_memset (mm/kasan/shadow.c:84 (discriminator 2)) [ 138.425889][ C1] ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168) [ 138.425893][ C1] ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:171) [ 138.425898][ C1] ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221) [ 138.425903][ C1] ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:57) [ 138.425910][ C1] ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:114) [ 138.425916][ C1] ? __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105 (discriminator 3)) [ 138.425921][ C1] ? __pfx_ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:45) [ 138.425927][ C1] ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221) [ 138.425931][ C1] tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:847 net/sched/act_ife.c:879) To solve this issue, fix the replace behavior by adding the metalist to the ife rcu data structure.
EPSS 0.02% · 4.9th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.15, 4.15, 4.15 |
| Linux | Linux | aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955, aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955, aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56ade7ddea6ce605552341785d08e365c3f61861 (circl)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b1449301ca070814d866990b46f48d3f39ea4ee (circl)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91a89d3bdc2f63d983adc13d1771631663c5dc1b (circl)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd888c3966672239f2e0707b846a5a936ac9038a (circl)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/691866c4cca54dc4df762276b49e89b36e046947 (circl)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2cedd400c3ec0302ffca2490e8751772906ac23 (circl)
- 4593.2.0.yml (github-poc)
- 4593.2.0.yml (github-poc)
- 4593.2.0.yml (github-poc)
- 4593.2.0.yml (github-poc)
…and 12 more exploits
Timeline
- Mar 25, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 25, 2026 Coalition ESS Score
- Mar 25, 2026 CVE Published
- Mar 29, 2026 Security Advisory
- Apr 24, 2026 CVE Updated
- May 18, 2026 EPSS Score
- May 19, 2026 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2026 EPSS Score
- May 21, 2026 EPSS Score
- May 22, 2026 EPSS Score
- May 23, 2026 EPSS Score
- May 24, 2026 EPSS Score
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56ade7ddea6ce605552341785d08e365c3f61861 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b1449301ca070814d866990b46f48d3f39ea4ee url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91a89d3bdc2f63d983adc13d1771631663c5dc1b url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd888c3966672239f2e0707b846a5a936ac9038a url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/691866c4cca54dc4df762276b49e89b36e046947 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2cedd400c3ec0302ffca2490e8751772906ac23 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23378 advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/05/msg00004.html advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/05/msg00005.html advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00154.html advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00148.html advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-202621930-1 advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-202621841-1 advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20262238-1 advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-202621974-1 advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20262217-1 advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-202621979-1 advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20262149-1 advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20262158-1 advisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-202621973-1 advisory
…and 78 more