CVE-2026-64563EPSS p1.5%
CVE-2026-64563CVE-2026-64563
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
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.12% probability of exploitation · percentile 1.5% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-08-19 |