CVE-2026-98603 PUBLISHED

ovpn: replace bind when clearing stale local source

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

ovpn: replace bind when clearing stale local source

The UDP output fallback clears bind->local in place when the remembered source address is no longer usable. The bind is RCU-published and read locklessly by concurrent TX, so an IPv6 reader can observe a torn address.

Retry the route lookup with source address autoselection without modifying the bind. After a successful lookup, revalidate the bind and route key under peer->lock, reset the dst cache, and best-effort publish a replacement bind with a wildcard local address.

Do not cache the resolved dst when clearing the local source. Replacing the source invalidates all per-CPU cache entries, while dst_cache_set_ip4 and dst_cache_set_ip6 update only the current CPU slot. The current packet can still use the resolved route; if bind allocation fails, a later cache miss retries the repair.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301 to c44a04722f7dae9a45a101b8e100931ab59f1c18 (excl.)
  • affected from 08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301 to 72bd1bea37ea2c8553938f086bf48ccd2147dfe1 (excl.)
  • affected from 08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301 to 7d8104988f423572df1f3347ce578037b1043f34 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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