NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-64k-devel-matched package, versions *
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELRT64KDEVELMATCHED-15818485
- published30 Mar 2026
- disclosed25 Mar 2026
Introduced: 25 Mar 2026
NewCVE-2026-23286 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:9 kernel-rt-64k-devel-matched.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-64k-devel-matched package and not the kernel-rt-64k-devel-matched package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
atm: lec: fix null-ptr-deref in lec_arp_clear_vccs
syzkaller reported a null-ptr-deref in lec_arp_clear_vccs(). This issue can be easily reproduced using the syzkaller reproducer.
In the ATM LANE (LAN Emulation) module, the same atm_vcc can be shared by multiple lec_arp_table entries (e.g., via entry->vcc or entry->recv_vcc). When the underlying VCC is closed, lec_vcc_close() iterates over all ARP entries and calls lec_arp_clear_vccs() for each matched entry.
For example, when lec_vcc_close() iterates through the hlists in priv->lec_arp_empty_ones or other ARP tables:
- In the first iteration, for the first matched ARP entry sharing the VCC, lec_arp_clear_vccs() frees the associated vpriv (which is vcc->user_back) and sets vcc->user_back to NULL.
- In the second iteration, for the next matched ARP entry sharing the same
VCC, lec_arp_clear_vccs() is called again. It obtains a NULL vpriv from
vcc->user_back (via LEC_VCC_PRIV(vcc)) and then attempts to dereference it
via
vcc->pop = vpriv->old_pop, leading to a null-ptr-deref crash.
Fix this by adding a null check for vpriv before dereferencing it. If vpriv is already NULL, it means the VCC has been cleared by a previous call, so we can safely skip the cleanup and just clear the entry's vcc/recv_vcc pointers.
The entire cleanup block (including vcc_release_async()) is placed inside the vpriv guard because a NULL vpriv indicates the VCC has already been fully released by a prior iteration — repeating the teardown would redundantly set flags and trigger callbacks on an already-closing socket.
The Fixes tag points to the initial commit because the entry->vcc path has been vulnerable since the original code. The entry->recv_vcc path was later added by commit 8d9f73c0ad2f ("atm: fix a memory leak of vcc->user_back") with the same pattern, and both paths are fixed here.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23286
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/101bacb303e89dc2e0640ae6a5e0fb97c4eb45bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d9f57ea29a1f1772373b98a509b44d49fda609e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f1cfea7921f5c126a441d973690eeba52677b64
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/622062f24644b4536d3f437e0cf7a8c4bb421665
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ea92ab075d809ec8a96669a5ecf00f752057875
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9665986eb127290ceb535bd5d04d7a84265d94f