In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: mst: fix vlan use-after-free
syzbot reported a suspicious rcu usage[1] in bridge's mst code. While
fixing it I noticed that nothing prevents a vlan to be freed while
walking the list from the same path (br forward delay timer). Fix the rcu
usage and also make sure we are not accessing freed memory by making
br_mst_vlan_set_state use rcu read lock.
[1]
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
6.9.0-rc6-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
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net/bridge/br_private.h:1599 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
...
stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 PID: 8017 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:114
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x221/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6712
nbp_vlan_group net/bridge/br_private.h:1599 [inline]
br_mst_set_state+0x1ea/0x650 net/bridge/br_mst.c:105
br_set_state+0x28a/0x7b0 net/bridge/br_stp.c:47
br_forward_delay_timer_expired+0x176/0x440 net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c:88
call_timer_fn+0x18e/0x650 kernel/time/timer.c:1793
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1844 [inline]
__run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2418 [inline]
__run_timer_base+0x66a/0x8e0 kernel/time/timer.c:2429
run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2438 [inline]
run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2448
__do_softirq+0x2c6/0x980 kernel/softirq.c:554
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:428 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0xf2/0x1c0 kernel/softirq.c:633
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:645
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1043 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1043
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x264/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: 2b 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 ba d1 84 00 f6 44 24 61 02 0f 85 85 01 00 00 41 f7 c7 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 25 00 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 25 09 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 25
RSP: 0018:ffffc90013657100 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 1ffff920026cae2c RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8bcaca00 RDI: ffffffff8c1eaa60
RBP: ffffc90013657260 R08: ffffffff92efe507 R09: 1ffffffff25dfca0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff25dfca1 R12: 1ffff920026cae28
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffc90013657160 R15: 0000000000000246
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). 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