CVE-2026-72072 — net/mlx5e: macsec: fix use-after-free of metadata_dst on RX SC delete

Affected: Linux

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

net/mlx5e: macsec: fix use-after-free of metadata_dst on RX SC delete

When an offloaded MACsec RX SC is deleted, macsec_del_rxsc_ctx() freed the per-SC metadata_dst with metadata_dst_free(), which kfree()s the object unconditionally and ignores the dst reference count. The RX datapath in mlx5e_macsec_offload_handle_rx_skb() looks up the SC under rcu_read_lock() via xa_load(), takes a reference with dst_hold() and attaches the dst to the skb with skb_dst_set(). A reader that already obtained the rx_sc pointer can race with the delete path and operate on freed memory.

Fix the owner side by dropping the reference with dst_release() instead of freeing unconditionally, and convert the RX datapath to dst_hold_safe() so a reader racing the SC delete cannot attach a dst whose last reference was just dropped; only attach it when a reference was actually taken.

mlx5e_macsec_add_rxsc() also published sc_xarray_element via xa_alloc() before rx_sc->md_dst was allocated and initialised, so a datapath reader that looked the SC up by fs_id could observe rx_sc with md_dst still NULL or, on weakly-ordered architectures, a non-NULL md_dst pointer whose contents were not yet visible. NULL-check the xa_load() result and md_dst on the datapath, and reorder add_rxsc() so the xa_alloc() publish happens only after md_dst is fully initialised; the xarray RCU publish then pairs with the rcu_read_lock()/xa_load() in the datapath.…

USN-8886-1 — linux-nvidia-tegra vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-nvidia-tegra

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) drivers; - Handshake API; - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - OpenRISC architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Intel NPU Driver; - Android drivers; - Rados block device (RBD) driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Hardware random number generator core; - TPM device driver; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - FireWire subsystem; - Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA); - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - CoreSight HW tracing drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Input Device (Mouse) drivers; - IOMMU subsystem; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Multifunction device drivers; - Fastrpc Driver; - Amazon Nitro Secure Module driver; - MMC subsystem; - MTD block device drivers; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - Texas Instruments network drivers; - NTB driver; - NVME drivers; - NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers; - Parport drivers…

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CVE-2026-72072 — net/mlx5e: macsec: fix use-after-free of metadata_dst on RX SC delete

USN-8886-1 — linux-nvidia-tegra vulnerabilities