VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-52993

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-06-24
Last modified2026-10-19
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append() tipc_msg_validate() can potentially reallocate the skb it is validating, freeing the old one. In tipc_buf_append(), it was being called with a pointer to a local variable which was a copy of the caller's skb pointer. If the skb was reallocated and validation subsequently failed, the error handling path would free the original skb pointer, which had already been freed, leading to double-free. Fix this by checking if head now points to a newly allocated reassembled skb. If it does, reassign *headbuf for later freeing operations.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-415
  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-763
  • 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c: CWE-763

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