CVE-2025-68775

net/handshake: duplicate handshake cancellations leak socket

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Jan 13, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/handshake: duplicate handshake cancellations leak socket

When a handshake request is cancelled it is removed from the handshake_net->hn_requests list, but it is still present in the handshake_rhashtbl until it is destroyed.

If a second cancellation request arrives for the same handshake request, then remove_pending() will return false... and assuming HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED isn't set in req->hr_flags, we'll continue processing through the out_true label, where we put another reference on the sock and a refcount underflow occurs.

This can happen for example if a handshake times out - particularly if the SUNRPC client sends the AUTH_TLS probe to the server but doesn't follow it up with the ClientHello due to a problem with tlshd. When the timeout is hit on the server, the server will send a FIN, which triggers a cancellation request via xs_reset_transport(). When the timeout is hit on the client, another cancellation request happens via xs_tls_handshake_sync().

Add a test_and_set_bit(HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED) in the pending cancel path so duplicate cancels can be detected.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3b3009ea8abb713b022d94fba95ec270cf6e7eae to before 011ae80c49d9bfa5b4336f8bd387cd25c7593663Affected
  • 3b3009ea8abb713b022d94fba95ec270cf6e7eae to before e1641177e7fb48a0a5a06658d4aab51da6656659Affected
  • 3b3009ea8abb713b022d94fba95ec270cf6e7eae to before 3c330f1dee3cd92b57e19b9d21dc8ce5970b09beAffected
  • 3b3009ea8abb713b022d94fba95ec270cf6e7eae to before 15564bd67e2975002f2a8e9defee33e321d3183fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.6.120 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.64 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.3 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

References

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