CVE-2026-68141 (GCVE-0-2026-68141)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 11:59 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:29
VLAI
Title
net/af_iucv: fix NULL deref in afiucv_hs_callback_syn()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/af_iucv: fix NULL deref in afiucv_hs_callback_syn() afiucv_hs_callback_syn() allocates the child socket with GFP_ATOMIC. If the allocation fails, nsk is NULL. The connection-refused path is entered when the listen state check fails, the accept backlog is full, or nsk is NULL. The code unconditionally calls iucv_sock_kill(nsk) in that path. iucv_sock_kill() does not accept a NULL socket pointer and immediately dereferences sk via sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED). When nsk is NULL, calling iucv_sock_kill(nsk) results in a NULL pointer dereference. Only call iucv_sock_kill() when a child socket was successfully allocated.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b , < 6a1eb5b46c19073f8153b7e2c19b408cf353aaf1 (git)
Affected: 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b , < c0b6e2ae90613c2fea7eaf3faa20985c6c2a1953 (git)
Affected: 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b , < 07e21deb3664001995e0a456dd627ab7dbe127ec (git)
Affected: 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b , < 8bb111f87ded6acb9837ec9b45d6f02cda94c51f (git)
Affected: 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b , < 46453b16f38ec7147351f7447e2aec6ea330f7b3 (git)
Affected: 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b , < 33736ff5e7c97d3348ce812e8bd2e125d840743c (git)
Affected: 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b , < 0e857185591fe79934427c9c0c1c31dc776be134 (git)
Affected: 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b , < 47a5116e56a6b6fe1e909f244e39cd0fc26ceee4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (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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