4.7

CVE-2026-64043

ovpn: fix race between deleting interface and adding new peer

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

ovpn: fix race between deleting interface and adding new peer

While deleting an existing ovpn interface, there is a very
narrow window where adding a new peer via netlink may cause
the netdevice to hang and prevent its unregistration.

It may happen during ovpn_dellink(), when all existing peers are
freed and the device is queued for deregistration, but a
CMD_PEER_NEW message comes in adding a new peer that takes again
a reference to the netdev.

At this point there is no way to release the device because we are
under the assumption that all peers were already released.

Fix the race condition by releasing all peers in ndo_uninit(),
when the netdevice has already been removed from the netdev
list.

Also ovpn_peer_add() has now an extra check that forces the
function to bail out if the device reg_state is not REGISTERED.
This way any incoming CMD_PEER_NEW racing with the interface
deletion routine will simply stop before adding the peer.

Note that the above check happens while holding the netdev_lock
to prevent racing netdev state changes.

ovpn_dellink() is now empty and can be removed.
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Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.16 < 6.18.34
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 7.0.11
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version 7.1 Update rc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version 7.1 Update rc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version 7.1 Update rc3
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.2% 0.098
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 4.7 1 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/097d62df38314c14b88fab9096f3461baf158e2b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de9fec2a6645f5b4d23398cd870a33e2703728d9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/982422b11e6f95f766a8cd2c2b1cbdb77e234a61
Patch