{"cve":"CVE-2026-53262","nvd":{"published":"2026-06-25T09:16:44.190","modified":"2026-10-21T13:19:13.080","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nl2tp: pppol2tp: hold reference to session in pppol2tp_ioctl()\n\npppol2tp_ioctl() read sock->sk->sk_user_data directly without any\nlocks or reference counting.  If a controllable sleep was induced during\ncopy_from_user() (e.g. via a userfaultfd page fault sleep), a concurrent\nsocket close could trigger pppol2tp_session_close() asynchronously.  This\nfrees the l2tp_session structure via the l2tp_session_del_work workqueue.\nUpon resuming, the ioctl thread dereferences the stale session pointer,\nresulting in a Use-After-Free (UAF).\n\nFix this by securely fetching the session reference using the RCU-safe,\nrefcounted helper pppol2tp_sock_to_session(sk) on entry.  This locks the\nsession's refcount across the sleep.  We structured the function to exit\nvia standard err breaks, guaranteeing that l2tp_session_put() is cleanly\ncalled on all return paths to drop the reference.\n\nTo preserve existing behavior we validate the session and its magic\nsignature only for the specific L2TP commands that require it.  This\nensures that generic/unknown ioctls called on an unconnected socket\nstill return -ENOIOCTLCMD and correctly fall back to generic handlers\n(e.g. in sock_do_ioctl()).","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/312ecea13b67797747eb9d4b9dab8d3846de6dfb","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f327e287cf7b595ae3f73ba72f5cd2a9e9f39f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78cdfdca88cbf731a92f3b9ee5427c633dd94e28","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a213a8950414c684999dcf03edeea6c46ede172e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e251d4cdfc725c9e7d686161e3b775a0e7d95053"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-22T16:41:11.231219466+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-53262","score":0.00119,"percentile":0.0177,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}