{"cve":"CVE-2026-74726","nvd":{"published":"2026-08-22T16:16:47.673","modified":"2026-10-16T20:17:55.033","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbonding: alb: re-check primary_is_promisc under RTNL in bond_alb_monitor\n\nbond_alb_monitor() reads primary_is_promisc under RCU, then drops RCU and\ntakes RTNL via rtnl_trylock() before undoing the promiscuity it set on the\nactive slave. In that window the active slave can change under RTNL\n(RTM_DELLINK -> __bond_release_one() -> bond_alb_handle_active_change()),\nwhich already drops the promiscuity and clears primary_is_promisc. The\nmonitor still acts on the stale decision: if the slave was removed with no\nfailover, curr_active_slave is now NULL and the deref faults; if it failed\nover, the stale dev_set_promiscuity(-1) underflows the new slave's\npromiscuity counter and pins it in IFF_PROMISC.\n\n  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n  Workqueue: b42 bond_alb_monitor\n  RIP: 0010:bond_alb_monitor (drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c:1600)\n   process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)\n   worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3486)\n   kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)\n   ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)\n  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nRe-check primary_is_promisc (and curr_active_slave) after taking RTNL so\nthe monitor only undoes an increment it still owns. The other bonding\nmonitors already re-read state under RTNL in their commit phase\n(bond_miimon_commit/bond_ab_arp_commit); bond_alb_monitor() was the only\none acting on the pre-trylock decision.","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:L/A:H","score":7.3},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09add8d5cfa9c46828f51eaad162c36e86366b71","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/257c4a3a34d8f51efb00f35375a0c6ce3c8f6ce2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2faf75a8a06504071b4c0aea7e45a9cc49a4e187","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/683c6ba6e58e6ed1037831ea97dd58d9c0e76b8d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b82f51681a7a88c7d3c865e817a3340d42b5fa2a"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:49:38.260478770+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-74726","score":0.00126,"percentile":0.02249,"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."]}