CVE-2026-23331 PUBLISHED

udp: Unhash auto-bound connected sk from 4-tuple hash table when disconnected.

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.01.2026 Published: 25.03.2026 Updated: 25.03.2026

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

udp: Unhash auto-bound connected sk from 4-tuple hash table when disconnected.

Let's say we bind() an UDP socket to the wildcard address with a non-zero port, connect() it to an address, and disconnect it from the address.

bind() sets SOCK_BINDPORT_LOCK on sk->sk_userlocks (but not SOCK_BINDADDR_LOCK), and connect() calls udp_lib_hash4() to put the socket into the 4-tuple hash table.

Then, __udp_disconnect() calls sk->sk_prot->rehash(sk).

It computes a new hash based on the wildcard address and moves the socket to a new slot in the 4-tuple hash table, leaving a garbage in the chain that no packet hits.

Let's remove such a socket from 4-tuple hash table when disconnected.

Note that udp_sk(sk)->udp_portaddr_hash needs to be udpated after udp_hash4_dec(hslot2) in udp_unhash4().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 78c91ae2c6deb5d236a5a93ff2995cdd05514380 to b955350778b8715e1b7885179979b3a68221c0fb (excl.)
  • affected from 78c91ae2c6deb5d236a5a93ff2995cdd05514380 to 3b8f104880c104151f8c30f2f89df81fb59a286c (excl.)
  • affected from 78c91ae2c6deb5d236a5a93ff2995cdd05514380 to 6996a2d2d0a64808c19c98002aeb5d9d1b2df6a4 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.17 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.7 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc3 to * (incl.)

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