CVE-2026-68294 PUBLISHED

net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace

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: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace

QRTR keeps its entire port and node state in module-global variables that are not partitioned per network namespace: qrtr_local_nid is a single global node id (always 1) and qrtr_ports is a single global xarray. qrtr_port_lookup() and qrtr_local_enqueue() operate on that global state with no network-namespace check, and qrtr_create() places no restriction on the namespace a socket is created in.

As a result an unprivileged process that creates an AF_QIPCRTR socket in a separate network namespace, e.g. via unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNET), can send QRTR datagrams - including control-plane messages such as QRTR_TYPE_NEW_SERVER - to QRTR sockets owned by another namespace, and vice versa. The receiving socket sees such a message as coming from node id 1, indistinguishable from a legitimate local client, breaking the isolation that network namespaces are expected to provide.

QRTR is a transport to global hardware endpoints (the modem and other remote processors) and has no per-namespace semantics; its in-kernel name service already creates its socket in init_net only. Confine the socket family to the initial network namespace, as other non-namespace-aware socket families do (see llc_ui_create() and the ieee802154 socket code).

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to 4b95e1f0d6e6342c427cb341ee18a894b146b789 (excl.)
  • affected from bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to f488116df769bdaf89c93371350e49e12133e70f (excl.)
  • affected from bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to 8150c48fb978e01689f94ed80148f8a7499ae571 (excl.)
  • affected from bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to 659b9b4f194bb56b9903cc95e786ef1d438baa7d (excl.)
  • affected from bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to 3b536db8fb32da9e9c62f2bb45e2e319331f0426 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.7 (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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