CVE-2026-68397 PUBLISHED

net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv()

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/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv()

afiucv_hs_rcv() looks up the destination socket under iucv_sk_list.lock, drops the lock, and then passes the socket to the afiucv_hs_callback_*() handlers without holding a reference. AF_IUCV sockets are not RCU-protected and are freed synchronously by iucv_sock_kill() -> sock_put(), so a concurrent close can free the socket in the window between read_unlock() and the handler, which then dereferences freed memory (for example sk->sk_data_ready() in afiucv_hs_callback_syn()).

Take a reference with sock_hold() while the socket is still on the list and release it with sock_put() once the handler has run.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 4dc0e63abf8bc7ba8892e617c1fb8b204361e022 (excl.)
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 1801cb20a5025a787d6853e19c38db138344b4b4 (excl.)
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to c75a950e77356e526672cba4584080c6c8b793b6 (excl.)
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 5595ea59cdf29182cf6a270cacc1426c57b603de (excl.)
  • affected from 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b to 4fa349156043dc119721d067329714179f501749 (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-rc4 to * (incl.)

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