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CVE-2026-68290 (GCVE-0-2026-68290)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:02 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:02
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Title
rds: tcp: unregister sysctl before tearing down listen socket
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rds: tcp: unregister sysctl before tearing down listen socket rds_tcp_exit_net() frees the per-netns RDS TCP listen socket via rds_tcp_kill_sock() before unregistering the per-netns sysctl table. Since rds_tcp_skbuf_handler() derives the netns from rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock->sk, a concurrent sysctl write can race with netns teardown and dereference the freed socket/sk. KASAN reports the race as: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rds_tcp_skbuf_handler+0x2aa/0x2e0 rds_tcp_skbuf_handler net/rds/tcp.c:721 proc_sys_call_handler fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c vfs_write fs/read_write.c __x64_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c Fix this by unregistering the RDS TCP sysctl table before calling rds_tcp_kill_sock(). unregister_net_sysctl_table() prevents new sysctl handlers from starting and waits for in-flight handlers to finish, so the listen socket can then be released safely. The fix was tested against the linked reproducer.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: de8d6de0ee27be4b2b1e5b06f04aeacbabbba492 , < 80fffed08dc1c10e971066941d2daa56253f1552 (git)
Affected: 7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c , < 16df2d154ec82e2f7e7585b4fa154751ba37729a (git)
Affected: 7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c , < 3aa13fe0c1bb7bc5312f878e61523e5d8cf3f85d (git)
Affected: 7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c , < 167e54c703ccd4fa028feb568b0d1002020cff86 (git)
Affected: 6.12.10 , < 6.12.101 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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