CVE-2026-68290

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by spraying the freed socket/sk slabs the attacker can steer these dereferences to chosen addresses, turning the use-after-free read into a kernel memory disclosure primitive.\nI:H - Reallocating the freed struct socket/sk with attacker-controlled data lets the attacker supply a bogus struct net pointer that drives rds_tcp_sysctl_reset()/rds_conn_path_drop() over the global RDS connection list, corrupting kernel state and giving the usual UAF path toward control-flow hijack.\nA:H - The confirmed KASAN slab-use-after-free on the freed listen socket readily oopses or panics the kernel, and the race can be repeated by an unprivileged user until it hits, giving a reliable denial of service."}]}], "affected": [{"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "versions": [{"status": "affected", "version": "6f353c2230c199f343406c08482940ec5d8ba89c", "lessThan": "66fd678eef1bc2862bde5e7a0f6106256de74f30", "versionType": "git"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "de8d6de0ee27be4b2b1e5b06f04aeacbabbba492", "lessThan": "80fffed08dc1c10e971066941d2daa56253f1552", "versionType": "git"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c", "lessThan": "16df2d154ec82e2f7e7585b4fa154751ba37729a", "versionType": "git"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c", "lessThan": "3aa13fe0c1bb7bc5312f878e61523e5d8cf3f85d", "versionType": "git"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c", "lessThan": "167e54c703ccd4fa028feb568b0d1002020cff86", "versionType": "git"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "33b3e09a489a31b30342b77cc55290f025d95c7e", "versionType": "git"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "6.12.10", "lessThan": "6.12.101", "versionType": "semver"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "6.6.160", "lessThan": "6.7", "versionType": "semver"}], "programFiles": ["net/rds/tcp.c"], "defaultStatus": "unaffected"}, {"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "versions": [{"status": "affected", "version": "6.13"}, {"status": "unaffected", "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.13", "versionType": "semver"}, {"status": "unaffected", "version": "6.12.101", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*"}, {"status": "unaffected", "version": "6.18.42", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*"}, {"status": "unaffected", "version": "7.1.6", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*"}, {"status": "unaffected", "version": "7.2", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*"}], "programFiles": ["net/rds/tcp.c"], "defaultStatus": "affected"}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66fd678eef1bc2862bde5e7a0f6106256de74f30"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80fffed08dc1c10e971066941d2daa56253f1552"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16df2d154ec82e2f7e7585b4fa154751ba37729a"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3aa13fe0c1bb7bc5312f878e61523e5d8cf3f85d"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/167e54c703ccd4fa028feb568b0d1002020cff86"}], "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}, "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrds: tcp: unregister sysctl before tearing down listen socket\n\nrds_tcp_exit_net() frees the per-netns RDS TCP listen socket via\nrds_tcp_kill_sock() before unregistering the per-netns sysctl table. 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