CVE-2026-99116

net: psp: do not inherit the Rx association on clone

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 28, 2026
Updated
Oct 28, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

net: psp: do not inherit the Rx association on clone

sk->psp_assoc sits past sk_dontcopy_end, so sock_copy() copies it into every socket accepted from a listener without taking a reference, while inet_sock_destruct() puts for every inet socket. psp_twsk_init() does refcount_inc() for the timewait socket, so a child closing through TIME_WAIT cancels its own put and leaves the association with one reference and N timewait sockets holding the same pointer. Closing the listener frees it, and the timewait timers then put freed memory.

Rejecting the association on a listening socket is not sufficient: a socket can acquire one while established and then be turned back into a listener, because tcp_disconnect() leaves sk->psp_assoc in place.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in psp_twsk_assoc_free+0x6f/0xf0 Write of size 4 at addr ffff888110f9255c by task swapper/7/0 psp_twsk_assoc_free+0x6f/0xf0 inet_twsk_put+0xda/0x1b0 call_timer_fn+0x53/0x2e0 __run_timers+0x764/0xa80 Freed by task 99: kfree+0x1a7/0x500 process_one_work+0x7ec/0x1100

An association carries a per-connection SPI and key, so a child must not inherit the parent's. Clear it on clone.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6b46ca260e2290e3453d1355ab5b6d283d73d780 to before a9f14ea73e82db743f0acf4219f499d594589288Affected
  • 6b46ca260e2290e3453d1355ab5b6d283d73d780 to before c962695467d3ab9738a6508279827ec33a7d2bdfAffected
  • 6b46ca260e2290e3453d1355ab5b6d283d73d780 to before 1d2929d0850fff683b8aff051275945e65f082c8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.59 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.13 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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