{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23120 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-23120 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-23120 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-23120 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23120 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23120/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23120/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-23120","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23120/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-23120","record":{"aliases":["AZL-77697","BELL-CVE-2026-23120","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23120","GHSA-3w5h-8286-m3qw","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-23120","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-23120","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23120"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A data race in the Linux kernel L2TP module can lead to a null pointer dereference and system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nl2tp: avoid one data-race in l2tp_tunnel_del_work()\n\nWe should read sk-\u003esk_socket only when dealing with kernel sockets.\n\nsyzbot reported the following data-race:\n\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in l2tp_tunnel_del_work / sk_common_release\n\nwrite to 0xffff88811c182b20 of 8 bytes by task 5365 on cpu 0:\n  sk_set_socket include/net/sock.h:2092 [inline]\n  sock_orphan include/net/sock.h:2118 [inline]\n  sk_common_release+0xae/0x230 net/core/sock.c:4003\n  udp_lib_close+0x15/0x20 include/net/udp.h:325\n  inet_release+0xce/0xf0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:437\n  __sock_release net/socket.c:662 [inline]\n  sock_close+0x6b/0x150 net/socket.c:1455\n  __fput+0x29b/0x650 fs/file_table.c:468\n  ____fput+0x1c/0x30 fs/file_table.c:496\n  task_work_run+0x131/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:233\n  resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]\n  __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:44 [inline]\n  exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1fe/0x740 kernel/entry/common.c:75\n  __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]\n  syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]\n  syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]\n  syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0x1e1/0x2b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nread to 0xffff88811c182b20 of 8 bytes by task 827 on cpu 1:\n  l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x2f/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1418\n  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]\n  process_scheduled_works+0x4ce/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3340\n  worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3421\n  kthread+0x489/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463\n  ret_from_fork+0x149/0x290 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158\n  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246\n\nvalue changed: 0xffff88811b818000 -\u003e 0x0000000000000000","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"l2tp: avoid one data-race in l2tp_tunnel_del_work()","id":"CVE-2026-23120","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"mISDN: annotate data-race around dev-\u003ework","id":"CVE-2026-23121"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"bonding: provide a net pointer to __skb_flow_dissect()","id":"CVE-2026-23119"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-02-14","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A data race in the Linux kernel L2TP module can lead to a null pointer dereference and system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23120/"}