CVE-2026-23273

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-03-20. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
7.8
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path

valis reported that a race condition still happens after my prior patch.

macvlan_common_newlink() might have made @dev visible before detecting an error, and its caller will directly call free_netdev(dev).

We must respect an RCU period, either in macvlan or the core networking stack.

After adding a temporary mdelay(1000) in macvlan_forward_source_one() to open the race window, valis repro was:

ip link add p1 type veth peer p2 ip link set address 00:00:00:00:00:20 dev p1 ip link set up dev p1 ip link set up dev p2 ip link add mv0 link p2 type macvlan mode source

(ip link add invalid% link p2 type macvlan mode source macaddr add 00:00:00:00:00:20 &) ; sleep 0.5 ; ping -c1 -I p1 1.2.3.4 PING 1.2.3.4 (1.2.3.4): 56 data bytes RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in macvlan_forward_source (drivers/net/macvlan.c:408 drivers/net/macvlan.c:444) Read of size 8 at addr ffff888016bb89c0 by task e/175

CPU: 1 UID: 1000 PID: 175 Comm: e Not tainted 6.19.0-rc8+ #33 NONE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123) print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482) ? macvlan_forward_source (drivers/net/macvlan.c:408 drivers/net/macvlan.c:444) kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597) ? macvlan_forward_source (drivers/net/macvlan.c:408 drivers/net/macvlan.c:444) macvlan_forward_source (drivers/net/macvlan.c:408 drivers/net/macvlan.c:444) ? tasklet_init (kernel/softirq.c:983) macvlan_handle_frame (drivers/net/macvlan.c:501)

Allocated by task 169: kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:58) kasan_save_track (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:25 mm/kasan/common.c:70 mm/kasan/common.c:79) __kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:419) __kvmalloc_node_noprof (./include/linux/kasan.h:263 mm/slub.c:5657 mm/slub.c:7140) alloc_netdev_mqs (net/core/dev.c:12012) rtnl_create_link (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3648) rtnl_newlink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3830 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3957 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4072) rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958) netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550) netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344) netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:727 net/socket.c:742 net/socket.c:2206) __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2209) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:131)

Freed by task 169: kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:58) kasan_save_track (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:25 mm/kasan/common.c:70 mm/kasan/common.c:79) kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:587) __kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:287) kfree (mm/slub.c:6674 mm/slub.c:6882) rtnl_newlink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3845 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3957 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4072) rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958) netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550) netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344) netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:727 net/socket.c:742 net/socket.c:2206) __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2209) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:131)

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8(medium)
EPSS
2.6%
KEV
Not listed

Published

March 20, 2026

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Jun 10, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3f000f0dee1bfab52e2e61ca6a3835d9e187e35
generic

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d34f7a8aa9a25b7e64e0e46e444697c0f702374d
generic

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1f686d273d129b45712d95f4095843b864466bd
generic

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91e4ff8d966978901630fc29582c1a76d3c6e46c
generic

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/721eb342d9ba19bad5c4815ea3921465158b7362
generic

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d94323c80d7fc4da5f10f9bb06a45d39d5d3cc4
generic

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e58ae87ad1e6e24368dea9aec9048c758cd0e2b
generic

macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19c7d8ac51988d053709c1e85bd8482076af845d

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-23273(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(12)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-edge (5.15.0.1111.120~20.04.1) @ focal2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-nolpae (5.15.0.1100.98) @ jammy2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-lowlatency-64k-6.8 (6.8.0-1052.55.1) @ noble2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-5.15.0-1070 (5.15.0-1070.74) @ jammy2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp (6.8.0.1029.30) @ noble2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-tegra-rt-6.8 (6.8.0-1023.23) @ noble2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.177.162) @ jammy2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.17.0-23.23) @ questing2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-6.8 (6.8.0-111.111) @ noble2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips-6.8 (6.8.0-1054.60+fips1) @ noble2026-06-11ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-6.17 (6.17.0-1014.14) @ questing2026-06-11ubuntu
linuxKernel @ 5.10.252—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-23273?
CVE-2026-23273 is a high vulnerability published on March 20, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlancommonnewlink() error path valis reported that a race condition still happens after my prior patch. macvlancommonnewlink() might have made @dev visible before detecting an error, and…
When was CVE-2026-23273 disclosed?
CVE-2026-23273 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on March 20, 2026, with the most recent update on July 14, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-23273 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-23273 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.6% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-23273?
CVE-2026-23273 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-23273?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-23273, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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