amt: Don't support cross-netns setup.
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: amt: Don't support cross-netns setup. When a lower device is unregistered, amt_device_event() tries to unregister its upper AMT device, but it has two problems. 1. amt_lookup_upper_dev() looks up an upper device in the lower device's netns only 2. amt_device_event() unregisters a single upper device only If AMT device is created on a lower device in another netns, removing the lower device triggers the splat below and gets stuck until all upper devices are removed. [0] The cross-netns setup seems unintentional considering 1. and the following points: * amt_link_setup() sets dev->netns_immutable to true * skb_scrub_packet() is not called in the fast path * iproute2 binary fails to find cross-netns lower device via link-netns: # ip -n ns1 link add amt0 link-netns ns2 type amt dev veth1 Cannot find device "veth1" Instead of supporting it properly and preparing for per-netns netdev unreg, let's forbid cross-netns setup. Note that the problem 2. needs a separate fix. [0]: WARNING: net/core/dev.c:12518 at unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x1cce/0x2250, CPU#48: ip/2031 Modules linked in: CPU: 48 UID: 0 PID: 2031 Comm: ip Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5+ #27 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify (net/core/dev.c:12518) Code: 89 ef e8 d5 52 ae fe e9 d0 f4 ff ff 48 8d 3d f9 3b 9c 02 48 c7 c6 c0 0b 63 84 ba ab 1f 00 00 67 48 0f b9 3a e9 65 ff ff ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb 81 48 8d 3d f6 3b 9c 02 48 c7 c6 c0 0b 63 84 ba e2 1f RSP: 0018:ffffc90004abf160 EFLAGS: 00010212 RAX: ffff888104d38260 RBX: ffff88800b0911b8 RCX: dffffc0000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff85b9f880 RBP: ffffc90004abf2d0 R08: ffffffff85b9f887 R09: 1ffffffff0b73f10 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff0b73f11 R12: ffff88800b091d08 R13: ffff88800b091178 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff88800b091000 FS: 00007f555b86c600(0000) GS:ffff8881942a0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000562107d489c0 CR3: 0000000109a40002 CR4: 0000000000372ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> rtnl_dellink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3632 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3674) rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7112) netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556) netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319) netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900) ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:775) __sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2738) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121) ... unregister_netdevice: waiting for veth0 to become free. Usage count = 7 ref_tracker: netdev@ffff88800d7496d8 has 3/3 users at __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert (./include/linux/netdevice.h:4525 ./include/linux/netdevice.h:4554 net/core/dev.c:8791) __netdev_upper_dev_link (net/core/dev.c:8879 net/core/dev.c:8963) netdev_upper_dev_link (net/core/dev.c:9009) amt_newlink (drivers/net/amt.c:3321)
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.52, 7.2.6, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-90232
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7h9j-j2h3-3xhw
- 2026-10-15 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-15 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/Linux@5ebaad6cf2a639afbf0b265f9a7d1fb6f656a37e, Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected] +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-21 2 new references · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@2a5a578d2e13d2dd6c1b272be7cfa0a6dd64552c, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a5a578d2e13d2dd6c1b272be7cfa0a6dd64552c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a457ff1189f22c2f15f69df55dc910b8b6d7a77d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ebaad6cf2a639afbf0b265f9a7d1fb6f656a37e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/569eb11f0990849ba48706a2bfa743273707e254
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1dc0af719a2566ae7ccb82c0a11f70aa54908e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e99ecc3046ea5f5c6b5e1f8b4ef854c6c6998e06
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Sources
- CVE-2026-90232 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-90232 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7h9j-j2h3-3xhw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-90232 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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