{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2026-05-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down",
    "id" : "2482006",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482006"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.0",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-364",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nbonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down\nThe ALB RX path may access rx_hashtbl concurrently with bond\nteardown. During rapid bond up/down cycles, rlb_deinitialize()\nfrees rx_hashtbl while RX handlers are still running, leading\nto a null pointer dereference detected by KASAN.\nHowever, the root cause is that rlb_arp_recv() can still be accessed\nafter setting recv_probe to NULL, which is actually a use-after-free\n(UAF) issue. That is the reason for using the referenced commit in the\nFixes tag.\n[  214.174138] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000001d: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\n[  214.186478] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000e8-0x00000000000000ef]\n[  214.194933] CPU: 30 UID: 0 PID: 2375 Comm: ping Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-rc8+ #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[  214.205907] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0WCJNT, BIOS 2.14.0 01/14/2022\n[  214.214357] RIP: 0010:rlb_arp_recv+0x505/0xab0 [bonding]\n[  214.220320] Code: 0f 85 2b 05 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 40 0f b6 ed 48 c1 e5 06 49 03 ad 78 01 00 00 48 8d 7d 28 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6\n04 02 84 c0 74 06 0f 8e 12 05 00 00 80 7d 28 00 0f 84 8c 00\n[  214.241280] RSP: 0018:ffffc900073d8870 EFLAGS: 00010206\n[  214.247116] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888168556822 RCX: ffff88816855681e\n[  214.255082] RDX: 000000000000001d RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: 00000000000000e8\n[  214.263048] RBP: 00000000000000c0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffffed11192021c8\n[  214.271013] R10: ffff8888c9010e43 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 1ffff92000e7b119\n[  214.278978] R13: ffff8888c9010e00 R14: ffff888168556822 R15: ffff888168556810\n[  214.286943] FS:  00007f85d2d9cb80(0000) GS:ffff88886ccb3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[  214.295966] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[  214.302380] CR2: 00007f0d047b5e34 CR3: 00000008a1c2e002 CR4: 00000000001726f0\n[  214.310347] Call Trace:\n[  214.313070]  <IRQ>\n[  214.315318]  ? __pfx_rlb_arp_recv+0x10/0x10 [bonding]\n[  214.320975]  bond_handle_frame+0x166/0xb60 [bonding]\n[  214.326537]  ? __pfx_bond_handle_frame+0x10/0x10 [bonding]\n[  214.332680]  __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x576/0x2710\n[  214.339199]  ? __pfx_arp_process+0x10/0x10\n[  214.343775]  ? sched_balance_find_src_group+0x98/0x630\n[  214.349513]  ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x10/0x10\n[  214.356513]  ? arp_rcv+0x307/0x690\n[  214.360311]  ? __pfx_arp_rcv+0x10/0x10\n[  214.364499]  ? __lock_acquire+0x58c/0xbd0\n[  214.368975]  __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xae/0x1b0\n[  214.374518]  ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x10/0x10\n[  214.380743]  ? lock_acquire+0x10b/0x140\n[  214.385026]  process_backlog+0x3f1/0x13a0\n[  214.389502]  ? process_backlog+0x3aa/0x13a0\n[  214.394174]  __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x9f/0x370\n[  214.399233]  net_rx_action+0x8c1/0xe60\n[  214.403423]  ? __pfx_net_rx_action+0x10/0x10\n[  214.408193]  ? lock_acquire.part.0+0xbd/0x260\n[  214.413058]  ? sched_clock_cpu+0x6c/0x540\n[  214.417540]  ? mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70\n[  214.421920]  handle_softirqs+0x1fd/0x860\n[  214.426302]  ? __pfx_handle_softirqs+0x10/0x10\n[  214.431264]  ? __neigh_event_send+0x2d6/0xf50\n[  214.436131]  do_softirq+0xb1/0xf0\n[  214.439830]  </IRQ>\nThe issue is reproducible by repeatedly running\nip link set bond0 up/down while receiving ARP messages, where\nrlb_arp_recv() can race with rlb_deinitialize() and dereference\na freed rx_hashtbl entry.\nFix this by setting recv_probe to NULL and then calling\nsynchronize_net() to wait for any concurrent RX processing to finish.\nThis ensures that no RX handler can access rx_hashtbl after it is freed\nin bond_alb_deinitialize().", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's bonding driver, specifically within the Active-Backup Load Balancing (ALB) receive path. A local attacker can trigger a Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability in the rlb_arp_recv function by rapidly bringing a bond interface up and down while receiving Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) messages. This concurrent access to freed memory can lead to a null pointer dereference, resulting in a system crash and a Denial of Service (DoS)." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:61887",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:6.12.0-211.50.1.el10_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:63013",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.159.1.rt7.500.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:63014",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.159.1.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:63129",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-687.44.1.el9_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:63129",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-687.44.1.el9_8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45970\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45970\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026052736-CVE-2026-45970-72d9@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2026-45970",
  "csaw" : false
}