In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
packet: annotate data-races around ignore_outgoing
ignore_outgoing is read locklessly from dev_queue_xmit_nit()
and packet_getsockopt()
Add appropriate READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations.
syzbot reported:
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in dev_queue_xmit_nit / packet_setsockopt
write to 0xffff888107804542 of 1 bytes by task 22618 on cpu 0:
packet_setsockopt+0xd83/0xfd0 net/packet/af_packet.c:4003
do_sock_setsockopt net/socket.c:2311 [inline]
__sys_setsockopt+0x1d8/0x250 net/socket.c:2334
__do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2343 [inline]
__se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2340 [inline]
__x64_sys_setsockopt+0x66/0x80 net/socket.c:2340
do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75
read to 0xffff888107804542 of 1 bytes by task 27 on cpu 1:
dev_queue_xmit_nit+0x82/0x620 net/core/dev.c:2248
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3527 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xcc/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:3547
__dev_queue_xmit+0xf24/0x1dd0 net/core/dev.c:4335
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3091 [inline]
batadv_send_skb_packet+0x264/0x300 net/batman-adv/send.c:108
batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127
batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:392 [inline]
batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:420 [inline]
batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x3f0/0x4b0 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1700
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3254 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0x465/0x990 kernel/workqueue.c:3335
worker_thread+0x526/0x730 kernel/workqueue.c:3416
kthread+0x1d1/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243
value changed: 0x00 -> 0x01
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 27 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Tainted: G W 6.8.0-syzkaller-08073-g480e035fc4c7 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/29/2024
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (4.7): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 4.7 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 4.7 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it