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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_ife: Fix metalist update behavior Whenever an ife action replace changes the metalist, instead of replacing the old data on the metalist, the current ife code is appending the new metadata. Aside from being innapropriate behavior, this may lead to an unbounded addition of metadata to the metalist which might cause an out of bounds error when running the encode op: [ 138.423369][ C1] ================================================================== [ 138.424317][ C1] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168) [ 138.424906][ C1] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880077f4ffe by task ife_out_out_bou/255 [ 138.425778][ C1] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 255 Comm: ife_out_out_bou Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1-00169-gfbdfa8da05b6 #624 PREEMPT(full) [ 138.425795][ C1] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 [ 138.425800][ C1] Call Trace: [ 138.425804][ C1] <IRQ> [ 138.425808][ C1] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122) [ 138.425828][ C1] print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482) [ 138.425839][ C1] ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221) [ 138.425844][ C1] ? __virt_addr_valid (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:95 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:975 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/mmzone.h:2207 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:54 (discriminator 1)) [ 138.425853][ C1] ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168) [ 138.425859][ C1] kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:221 mm/kasan/report.c:597) [ 138.425868][ C1] ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168) [ 138.425878][ C1] kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:186 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/generic.c:200 (discriminator 1)) [ 138.425884][ C1] __asan_memset (mm/kasan/shadow.c:84 (discriminator 2)) [ 138.425889][ C1] ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:168) [ 138.425893][ C1] ? ife_tlv_meta_encode (net/ife/ife.c:171) [ 138.425898][ C1] ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221) [ 138.425903][ C1] ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:57) [ 138.425910][ C1] ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:114) [ 138.425916][ C1] ? __asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105 (discriminator 3)) [ 138.425921][ C1] ? __pfx_ife_encode_meta_u16 (net/sched/act_ife.c:45) [ 138.425927][ C1] ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221) [ 138.425931][ C1] tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:847 net/sched/act_ife.c:879) To solve this issue, fix the replace behavior by adding the metalist to the ife rcu data structure.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-13 | Published 2026-03-25 | Updated 2026-05-11 | Assigner Linux




HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Product status

Default status
unaffected

aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955 (git) before 56ade7ddea6ce605552341785d08e365c3f61861
affected

aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955 (git) before 5b1449301ca070814d866990b46f48d3f39ea4ee
affected

aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955 (git) before 91a89d3bdc2f63d983adc13d1771631663c5dc1b
affected

aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955 (git) before cd888c3966672239f2e0707b846a5a936ac9038a
affected

aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955 (git) before 691866c4cca54dc4df762276b49e89b36e046947
affected

aa9fd9a325d51fa0b11153b03b8fefff569fa955 (git) before e2cedd400c3ec0302ffca2490e8751772906ac23
affected

Default status
affected

4.15
affected

Any version before 4.15
unaffected

6.1.167 (semver)
unaffected

6.6.130 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.77 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.17 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.7 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/56ade7ddea6ce605552341785d08e365c3f61861

git.kernel.org/...c/5b1449301ca070814d866990b46f48d3f39ea4ee

git.kernel.org/...c/91a89d3bdc2f63d983adc13d1771631663c5dc1b

git.kernel.org/...c/cd888c3966672239f2e0707b846a5a936ac9038a

git.kernel.org/...c/691866c4cca54dc4df762276b49e89b36e046947

git.kernel.org/...c/e2cedd400c3ec0302ffca2490e8751772906ac23

cve.org (CVE-2026-23378)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-23378)

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