CVE-2026-68141 PUBLISHED

net/af_iucv: fix NULL deref in afiucv_hs_callback_syn()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

net/af_iucv: fix NULL deref in afiucv_hs_callback_syn()

afiucv_hs_callback_syn() allocates the child socket with GFP_ATOMIC. If the allocation fails, nsk is NULL.

The connection-refused path is entered when the listen state check fails, the accept backlog is full, or nsk is NULL. The code unconditionally calls iucv_sock_kill(nsk) in that path.

iucv_sock_kill() does not accept a NULL socket pointer and immediately dereferences sk via sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED). When nsk is NULL, calling iucv_sock_kill(nsk) results in a NULL pointer dereference.

Only call iucv_sock_kill() when a child socket was successfully allocated.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 8bb111f87ded6acb9837ec9b45d6f02cda94c51f (excl.)
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 46453b16f38ec7147351f7447e2aec6ea330f7b3 (excl.)
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 33736ff5e7c97d3348ce812e8bd2e125d840743c (excl.)
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 0e857185591fe79934427c9c0c1c31dc776be134 (excl.)
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 47a5116e56a6b6fe1e909f244e39cd0fc26ceee4 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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