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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-64581 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy() xfrm_user_policy() clears the socket dst cache with __sk_dst_reset(), i.e. the non-atomic __sk_dst_set(sk, NULL): it reads sk_dst_cache with rcu_derefere

[NVD] CVE-2026-64581 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy() xfrm_user_policy() clears the socket dst cache with __sk_dst_reset(), i.e. the non-atomic __sk_dst_set(sk, NULL): it reads sk_dst_cache with rcu_derefere

mednvdPublished 2026-08-05

CVE-2026-64581 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-05T08:16:38.177

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

xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy()

xfrm_user_policy() clears the socket dst cache with __sk_dst_reset(), i.e. the non-atomic __sk_dst_set(sk, NULL): it reads sk_dst_cache with rcu_dereference_protected(), stores NULL and dst_release()s the ol

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64581