CVE-2026-23449 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 3
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: teql: Fix double-free in teql_master_xmit
Whenever a TEQL devices has a lockless Qdisc as root, qdisc_reset should
be called using the seq_lock to avoid racing with the datapath. Failure
to do so may cause crashes like the following:
[ 238.028993][ T318] BUG: KASAN: double-free in skb_release_data (net/core/skbuff.c:1139)
[ 238.029328][ T318] Free of addr ffff88810c67ec00 by task poc_teql_uaf_ke/318
[ 238.029749][ …
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux96009c7d500efdd5534e83b2e3eb2c58d4b137ae — 4e8ebc4c18ea8213d28e6cb867d18fcc67daca21+6
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-68f3-cx9x-c5jf: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: teql: Fix double-free in teql_master_xmit
Whenever a TEQL devices has↗2026-04-03
OSV▶
CVE-2026-23449: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: teql: Fix double-free in teql_master_xmit Whenever a TEQL devices has a↗2026-04-03