CVE-2026-97602: inet: frags: invalidate queues before flushing them

CVE-2026-97602: inet: frags: invalidate queues before flushing them

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>

Description
===========

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

inet: frags: invalidate queues before flushing them

fqdir_pre_exit() flushes the skbs from incomplete queues without
changing their completion state. A fragment which found a queue before
high_thresh was cleared can then acquire the queue lock and reuse stale
reassembly metadata. A queue concurrently killed after fqdir->dead is
set can instead become INET_FRAG_COMPLETE|INET_FRAG_HASH_DEAD while
still holding its old skbs; skipping it because it is complete leaves
those references behind until asynchronous fqdir teardown.

For IPv6, stale metadata can make ip6_frag_reasm() use the old
nhoffset with a new skb and access memory out of bounds. The resulting
heap corruption can be leveraged for local privilege escalation when
unprivileged network namespaces are available. Unflushed fragments can
also keep conntrack references alive after the conntrack per-net
cleanup point.

Kill each incomplete queue, then flush every queue still owned by the
dying rhashtable. HASH_DEAD identifies that ownership, while complete
queues without it are already owned by another destroy path and must be
left alone. Releasing a timer reference removed by inet_frag_kill() is
deferred to inet_frag_putn(), after the queue lock is dropped.

KASAN report:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ipv6_frag_rcv (net/ipv6/reassembly.c:289 (discriminator 2) net/ipv6/reassembly.c:229 (discriminator 2) net/ipv6/reassembly.c:391 (discriminator 2))
  Write of size 1 at addr ff110001039c6e00 by task poc/771
  Call Trace:
  ? ipv6_frag_rcv (net/ipv6/reassembly.c:289 (discriminator 2) net/ipv6/reassembly.c:229 (discriminator 2) net/ipv6/reassembly.c:391 (discriminator 2))
  ipv6_frag_rcv (net/ipv6/reassembly.c:289 (discriminator 2) net/ipv6/reassembly.c:229 (discriminator 2) net/ipv6/reassembly.c:391 (discriminator 2))
  ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:479 (discriminator 5))
  ip6_input_finish (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:534)
  ipv6_rcv (include/net/dst.h:480 (discriminator 3) net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:119 (discriminator 3) net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:109 (discriminator 3) include/linux/netfilter.h:325 (discriminator 3) include/linux/netfilter.h:319 (discriminator 3) net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351 (discriminator 3))
  packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3110 net/packet/af_packet.c:3142)
  __x64_sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2883 net/socket.c:2880 net/socket.c:2880)
  The buggy address belongs to the object at ff110001039c6b40
  which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704
  The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
  allocated 704-byte region [ff110001039c6b40, ff110001039c6e00)

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:423 (discriminator 1))
  Read of size 1 at addr ff110001039c6e08 by task poc/771
  Call Trace:
  ? ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:423 (discriminator 1))
  ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:423 (discriminator 1))
  ip6_input_finish (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:534)
  ipv6_rcv (include/net/dst.h:480 (discriminator 3) net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:119 (discriminator 3) net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:109 (discriminator 3) include/linux/netfilter.h:325 (discriminator 3) include/linux/netfilter.h:319 (discriminator 3) net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351 (discriminator 3))
  packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3110 net/packet/af_packet.c:3142)
  __x64_sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2883 net/socket.c:2880 net/socket.c:2880)
  packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:2959 net/packet/af_packet.c:3053 net/packet/af_packet.c:3142)
  __x64_sys_sendmmsg (net/socket.c:2883 net/socket.c:2880 net/socket.c:2880)
  The buggy address belongs to the object at ff110001039c6b40
  which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704
  The buggy address is located 8 bytes to the right of
  allocated 704-byte region [ff110001039c6b40, ff110001039c6e00)

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-97602 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.12.93 with commit 543555954b1ee8d1903a7020324efb41b0c97428 and fixed in 6.12.111 with commit b9d77f1652e79e58eac48430d0431c329137efcc
	Issue introduced in 6.18.3 with commit c70df25214ac9b32b53e18e6ae3b8f073ffa6903 and fixed in 6.18.53 with commit 7cb5f4643a7fcdbfbee1fad3cdfc678add62d378
	Issue introduced in 6.19 with commit 006a5035b495dec008805df249f92c22c89c3d2e and fixed in 7.2.7 with commit bf3d6c44c84c57e8a4bb7f40ad95b64f9b0198ba
	Issue introduced in 6.19 with commit 006a5035b495dec008805df249f92c22c89c3d2e and fixed in 7.3-rc3 with commit b824476c56a153934c67c9e0f873e1fd967743d6
	Issue introduced in 6.6.143 with commit 22ee4010866da81aeee08e1ea3fddbe418feb212

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-97602
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9d77f1652e79e58eac48430d0431c329137efcc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cb5f4643a7fcdbfbee1fad3cdfc678add62d378
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf3d6c44c84c57e8a4bb7f40ad95b64f9b0198ba
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b824476c56a153934c67c9e0f873e1fd967743d6