CVE-2026-23103CWE-362CWE-667

CVE-2026-23103

High · published February 4, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ipvlan: Make the addrs_lock be per port

Make the addrs_lock be per port, not per ipvlan dev.

Initial code seems to be written in the assumption,

that any address change must occur under RTNL.

But it is not so for the case of IPv6. So

1) Introduce per-port addrs_lock.

2) It was needed to fix places where it was forgotten

to take lock (ipvlan_open/ipvlan_close)

This appears to be a very minor problem though.

Since it's highly unlikely that ipvlan_add_addr() will

be called on 2 CPU simultaneously. But nevertheless,

this could cause:

1) False-negative of ipvlan_addr_busy(): one interface

iterated through all port->ipvlans + ipvlan->addrs

under some ipvlan spinlock, and another added IP

under its own lock. Though this is only possible

for IPv6, since looks like only ipvlan_addr6_event() can be

called without rtnl_lock.

2) Race since ipvlan_ht_addr_add(port) is called under

different ipvlan->addrs_lock locks

This should not affect performance, since add/remove IP

is a rare situation and spinlock is not taken on fast

paths.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00125 · 2.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition'); CWE-667 · Improper Locking
Published
2026-02-04T22:16Z
Affected products (12)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.17, < 5.10.2495.10.249
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1995.15.199
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1626.1.162
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1226.6.122
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.686.12.68
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.86.18.8
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References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 FEB 16:08Z
    ipvlan: Make the addrs_lock be per port
    cvelistv5