> CVE-2026-23209

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PUBLISHED
2026-02-14 17:15
MODIFIED
2026-02-14 17:15
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
0.18%
Top 92.8%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD 🔗 2026-02-14 FIRST EPSS 🔗 2026-11-08 OSV 🔗 2026-11-08

> DESCRIPTION

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink() valis provided a nice repro to crash the kernel: ip link add p1 type veth peer p2 ip link set address 00:00:00:00:00:20 dev p1 ip link set up dev p1 ip link set up dev p2 ip link add mv0 link p2 type macvlan mode source ip link add invalid% link p2 type macvlan mode source macaddr add 00:00:00:00:00:20 ping -c1 -I p1 1.2.3.4 He also gave a very detailed analysis: <quote valis> The issue is triggered when a new macvlan link is created with MACVLAN_MODE_SOURCE mode and MACVLAN_MACADDR_ADD (or MACVLAN_MACADDR_SET) parameter, lower device already has a macvlan port and register_netdevice() called from macvlan_common_newlink() fails (e.g. because of the invalid link name). In this case macvlan_hash_add_source is called from macvlan_change_sources() / macvlan_common_newlink(): This adds a reference to vlan to the port's vlan_source_hash using macvlan_source_entry. vlan is a pointer to the priv data of the link that is being created. When register_netdevice() fails, the error is returned from macvlan_newlink() to rtnl_newlink_create(): if (ops->newlink) err = ops->newlink(dev, &params, extack); else err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err < 0) { free_netdev(dev); goto out; } and free_netdev() is called, causing a kvfree() on the struct net_device that is still referenced in the source entry attached to the lower device's macvlan port. Now all packets sent on the macvlan port with a matching source mac address will trigger a use-after-free in macvlan_forward_source(). </quote valis> With all that, my fix is to make sure we call macvlan_flush_sources() regardless of @create value whenever "goto destroy_macvlan_port;" path is taken. Many thanks to valis for following up on this issue.

> AFFECTED_PRODUCTS

ℹ️ Aucun produit affecté n'a encore été publié par NVD pour cette CVE.

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> OSV (GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE VULNERABILITIES)

macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink()

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
Unknown / Unknown
Linux / Kernel

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
14/02/2026 17:15
Source: NVD
Total des modifications: 0 Dernière mise à jour: 8 months ago

> REFERENCES

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ba9f0dc865136174cb98834280fb21bbc950c7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5dae6b36a7cb7a4fcf4121b95e9ca7f96f816c8a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/986967a162142710076782d5b93daab93a892980
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c43d0e787cbba569ec9d11579ed370b50fab6c9c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdedcd5aa3f3cb8b7ae0f87ab3a936d0bd583d66
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da5c6b8ae47e414be47e5e04def15b25d5c962dc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8db6475a83649689c087a8f52486fcc53e627e9
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