CVE-2026-74493 (GCVE-0-2026-74493)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:27 – Updated: 2026-10-16 19:05
VLAI
Title
net/smc: fix socket use-after-free during link group termination
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: fix socket use-after-free during link group termination __smc_lgr_terminate() drops conns_lock after finding a connection in lgr->conns_all, but before taking a reference on its socket. The connection is embedded in the socket, and its registration reference protects it only while the connection remains in the tree. A concurrent close can unregister the connection and drop that reference, freeing the socket before the termination worker reaches sock_hold(). The race is reachable when close overlaps link group termination. Local stress testing reproduced the use-after-free and KASAN reported: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __smc_lgr_terminate.part.0 [smc] Write of size 4 by task kworker/3:3 Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc] __smc_lgr_terminate.part.0 [smc] The socket was allocated by smc_create(), freed through slab_free_after_rcu_debug(), and was followed by: refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free. __smc_lgr_terminate.part.0 [smc] Take the socket reference while conns_lock still protects the tree entry. The unregister path then cannot drop the last reference until termination has finished using the socket.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-16 18:58 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 69318b5215f2dc32c345a3d65b98b4b1bf29c007 , < ff44f2df57fb5560bdc75eb977867643e764a262 (git)
Affected: 69318b5215f2dc32c345a3d65b98b4b1bf29c007 , < 9fb17c95b8f0683570fca1fb2792264147af937a (git)
Affected: 69318b5215f2dc32c345a3d65b98b4b1bf29c007 , < bea8dc14de2d56aca749d368563e6888217710a5 (git)
Affected: 69318b5215f2dc32c345a3d65b98b4b1bf29c007 , < 5a42f162b857019a4c10ff687dc3bcdf51831865 (git)
Affected: 69318b5215f2dc32c345a3d65b98b4b1bf29c007 , < 281c103a8eaed59001ce952f231df1b07674215a (git)
Affected: 69318b5215f2dc32c345a3d65b98b4b1bf29c007 , < f807a63d0d95680c34f677700da9148a07d7c78f (git)
Affected: 69318b5215f2dc32c345a3d65b98b4b1bf29c007 , < f0541a775d04c88e90ba448e35ce0d743512822a (git)
Affected: 69318b5215f2dc32c345a3d65b98b4b1bf29c007 , < f621d6ebeebb6374342571e4ddf45fdbc420f6cd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.151 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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