CVE-2026-74433: rxrpc: Fix UAF in rxgk_issue_challenge()

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cve-announce
Message-ID <2026081515-CVE-2026-74433-cada@gregkh>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

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

rxrpc: Fix UAF in rxgk_issue_challenge()

Fix rxgk_issue_challenge() to free the page containing the challenge
content after invoking the tracepoint as the whdr passed to the tracepoint
points into the page just freed.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-74433 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a and fixed in 6.18.40 with commit 844b8525ce503405c462ad67f750bec648720397
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a and fixed in 7.1.5 with commit 83bb0ed050e2ad9453d8ef50e4d6e624eac6eed8
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a and fixed in 7.2-rc1 with commit 107a4cb0d47e735830f852d83970d5c81f8e1e08

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-74433
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/rxrpc/rxgk.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/844b8525ce503405c462ad67f750bec648720397
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83bb0ed050e2ad9453d8ef50e4d6e624eac6eed8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/107a4cb0d47e735830f852d83970d5c81f8e1e08
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