CVE-2026-72022 (GCVE-0-2026-72022)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:51 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:06
VLAI
Title
llc: fix SAP refcount leak in llc_ui_autobind()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: llc: fix SAP refcount leak in llc_ui_autobind() llc_ui_autobind() opens a SAP after choosing a dynamic LSAP. llc_sap_open() returns a reference owned by the caller, and llc_sap_add_socket() takes a second reference for the socket's membership in the SAP hash tables. llc_ui_bind() drops the caller's reference after adding the socket, but llc_ui_autobind() keeps it. When the socket is closed, llc_sap_remove_socket() releases only the socket reference, leaving the SAP on llc_sap_list with sk_count == 0. This is user-visible because repeated autobind and close cycles can consume all dynamic SAP values and make later autobinds fail with -EUSERS. Drop the caller's reference after a successful autobind, matching llc_ui_bind()'s ownership model.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 79dc4b508e3f2649390a1f745f7657813e5938ec (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < a2f9fa31ae021ef1fdcaf3ab17bd49f9223dd6a4 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < b589a965184dde49c43b8caf5bcc65715a7b4ef2 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c7881b6088276601beaccb7440b8d56eab0d65ae (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < b2fc9955ddc7c4ca03be44b995193bd6486c62e1 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 61a7ff4a62003b55a15022567486741b3bd83914 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 21a537606fe35be2b85971a5fd35c0023b6ef98f (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 660667cd406648bbaffbd5c0d897c2263a852f11 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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