CVE-2026-23437 net: shaper: protect late read accesses to the hierarchy

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: shaper: protect late read accesses to the hierarchy We look up a netdev during prep of Netlink ops pre- callbacks and take a ref to it. Then later in the body of the callback we take its lock or RCU which are the actual...

CVE-2026-23437

CVE-2026-23437 (Linux kernel) concerns the net: shaper module. A missing liveness check occurs when a netdev is looked up during prep of Netlink operations, a reference is taken, and later the code uses the netdev’s lock or RCU protections. The conversion from a ref to a locked netdev may proceed...