CVE-2026-23239

Summary

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

espintcp: Fix race condition in espintcp_close()

This issue was discovered during a code audit.

After cancel_work_sync() is called from espintcp_close(), espintcp_tx_work() can still be scheduled from paths such as the Delayed ACK handler or ksoftirqd. As a result, the espintcp_tx_work() worker may dereference a freed espintcp ctx or sk.

The following is a simple race scenario:

       cpu0                             cpu1

espintcp_close() cancel_work_sync(&ctx->work); espintcp_write_space() schedule_work(&ctx->work);

To prevent this race condition, cancel_work_sync() is replaced with disable_work_sync().

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7ad8b1d0e421c524604d5076b73232093490d5c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/664e9df53226b4505a0894817ecad2c610ab11d8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/022ff7f347588de6e17879a1da6019647b21321b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1512c1db9e8794d8d130addd2615ec27231d994

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