CVE-2026-46120 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's IPv6 GRE/ERSPAN implementation. After an ERSPAN device is migrated between network namespaces using IFLA_NET_NS_FD, ip6erspan_changelink() uses dev_net(dev) rather than the tunnel's cached creation namespace, t->net. This reinserts the tunnel into the wrong per-network-namespace hash and leaves a stale entry in the original namespace. Destruction of that namespace causes ip6gre_exit_rtnl_net() to traverse the stale entry, triggering a slab use-after-free and a subsequent kernel BUG in unregister_netdevice_many_notify(). The vulnerable path is reachable from an unprivileged user namespace.
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A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ip6_gre component addressed by using the cached network reference t->net in ip6erspan_changelink(). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt packages are affected; the content does not specify the underlying exploitation mechanism or impact.
Listed in a Red Hat kernel-package security advisory; the specific flaw and its impact are not described.
A Linux kernel IPv6 GRE vulnerability addressed by using the cached t->net value in ip6erspan_changelink(). The content does not specify its impact.
A vulnerability covered by the Miracle Linux kernel package update. Individual technical details and exploit availability are not specified.
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