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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-68152

| EUVDEUVD-2026-55538 HIGH
2026-08-10 Linux GHSA-3v9r-4x9w-8c55
Buffer Overflow Linux Suse
7.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Linux
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Vendor (Linux) PRIMARY
7.8 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
7.0 HIGH

Race condition exploitation requires winning a narrow timing window (AC:H); low-privilege local access with CAP_NET_ADMIN to manage network devices maps to PR:L; scope unchanged as impact is confined to the vulnerable kernel.

3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
5.3 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Red Hat
5.5 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (Linux).

CVSS VectorVendor: Linux

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Aug 14, 2026 - 02:33 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Aug 13, 2026 - 23:37 NVD
7.8 (HIGH)
Patch available
Aug 10, 2026 - 14:18 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 10, 2026 - 11:59 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Aug 10, 2026 - 11:59 cve.org
HIGH 7.8

DescriptionCVE.org

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

amt: fix use-after-free in AMT delayed works

When an AMT device is removed, pending delayed works can still access the freed amt_dev structure, which may result in kernel crashes or memory corruption.

amt_dev_stop() cancels req_wq and discovery_wq with cancel_delayed_work_sync(), but these works can be scheduled again from event_wq after the cancellation. This allows delayed works to access the freed amt_dev structure after the netdev has been released.

The following is a simple race scenario:

CPU0 CPU1

amt_dev_stop() cancel_delayed_work_sync() amt_event_work() mod_delayed_work(req_wq) free netdev req_wq accesses freed amt_dev

Use disable_delayed_work_sync() in amt_dev_stop() to prevent req_wq and discovery_wq from being queued again and wait for running work items to complete.

The delayed works are disabled after initialization in amt_newlink() and enabled only when the device is successfully opened. This keeps the delayed work lifecycle synchronized with the lifetime of the AMT device.

AnalysisAI

Use-after-free in the Linux kernel's AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling) driver allows a local attacker to trigger kernel memory corruption or a system crash through a race condition introduced during AMT device removal. The flaw arises because amt_dev_stop() uses cancel_delayed_work_sync() to cancel req_wq and discovery_wq, but event_wq can re-schedule req_wq after that cancellation completes yet before the netdev is freed - leaving delayed work items that dereference the already-released amt_dev structure. Upstream patches are confirmed available in stable kernel releases 6.12.101, 6.18.42, and 7.1.6; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Technical ContextAI

The vulnerability resides in the Linux kernel AMT driver (drivers/net/amt.c), which implements RFC 7450 Automatic Multicast Tunneling over unicast networks. Three workqueues coordinate AMT operation: req_wq (registration), discovery_wq (gateway discovery), and event_wq (event handling). The root cause is a use-after-free race condition - functionally CWE-416, though CWE is listed as N/A in the source data. The original teardown path called cancel_delayed_work_sync(), which cancels pending items but does not prevent subsequent re-queuing; event_wq's amt_event_work() handler calls mod_delayed_work(req_wq) after cancellation completes, requeuing req_wq before the netdev memory is released. Once the netdev is freed, req_wq fires and dereferences the stale amt_dev pointer, producing memory corruption or a kernel oops. The fix replaces cancel_delayed_work_sync() with disable_delayed_work_sync(), which atomically disables re-queuing, drains running items, and prevents future scheduling - synchronizing the delayed-work lifecycle with the AMT device lifetime. The affected code was introduced in Linux 5.16 (commit cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4). CPE: cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to a patched kernel release: 6.12.101, 6.18.42, 7.1.6, or 7.2-rc5 or later, using the upstream stable commits listed in the references above. A reboot is required to load the updated kernel. For distribution-packaged kernels, apply the next security update that incorporates one of the four upstream fix commits; verify the commit SHA is present in the running kernel's changelog. As a compensating control where AMT multicast tunneling is not operationally required, block the AMT module from loading by adding 'blacklist amt' to /etc/modprobe.d/blocklist.conf and running 'depmod -a', then removing the currently loaded module with 'rmmod amt' if it is present - this completely eliminates the attack surface with no functional impact to systems not using IP multicast tunneling. Network-level controls (filtering multicast traffic) do not mitigate this vulnerability because exploitation is local, not remote.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
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