kernel: net/sched: act_api: use RCU with deferred freeing for action lifecycle

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking scheduler. A race condition, which is a problem that occurs when multiple operations try to access the same resource at the same time, exists when network filter operations are run concurrently. This can lead to a Use-After-Free UAF vulnerability,...

kernel: net/sched: act_api: use RCU with deferred freeing for action lifecycle

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking scheduler. A race condition, which is a problem that occurs when multiple operations try to access the same resource at the same time, exists when network filter operations are run concurrently. This can lead to a Use-After-Free UAF vulnerability,...

CVE-2026-74740

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: actapi: fix TOCTOU NULL deref on a-gotochain tcfactionexec handles TCACTGOTOCHAIN by first checking rcuaccesspointera-gotochain and then calling tcfactiongotochainexec, which does a second, independent...

CVE-2017-7979

CVE-2017-7979 affects the Linux kernel 4.11.x via the packet action API (net/sched/act_api.c). The vulnerability arises from mishandling the tb nlattr array in the cookie feature, enabling a local attacker to trigger denial of service through uninitialized memory access and a refcount underflow, ...