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CVE-2026-68386

bpf, sockmap: Reject unhashed UDP sockets on sockmap update PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, sockmap: Reject unhashed UDP sockets on sockmap update UDP sockets get SOCK_RCU_FREE set when (auto-)bound. This means sk_is_refcounted(unbound) = true, while sk_is_refcounted(bound) = false. Because sockmap accepts unbound UDP sockets, a BPF program can increment a socket's refcount via lookup. If the socket is subsequently bound, the transition from unbound to bound causes bpf_sk_release() to skip the decrement of the refcount, causing a memory leak. unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc2eb40 (size 1984): comm "test_progs", pid 2451, jiffies 4295320596 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 7f 00 00 01 7f 00 00 01 d2 04 1b b7 04 d2 00 00 ................ 02 00 01 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...@............ backtrace (crc bdee079d): kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x557/0x660 sk_prot_alloc+0x69/0x240 sk_alloc+0x30/0x460 inet_create+0x2ce/0xf80 __sock_create+0x25b/0x5c0 __sys_socket+0x119/0x1d0 __x64_sys_socket+0x72/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0xa1/0x5f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Instead of special-casing for refcounted sockets, reject unhashed UDP sockets during sockmap updates, as there is no benefit to supporting those. This effectively reverts the commit under Fixes, with two exceptions: 1. sock_map_sk_state_allowed() maintains a fall-through `return true`. 2. In the spirit of commit b8b8315e39ff ("bpf, sockmap: Remove unhash handler for BPF sockmap usage"), the proto::unhash BPF handler is not reintroduced. Historical note: this issue is related to commit 67312adc96b5 ("bpf: reject unhashed sockets in bpf_sk_assign").

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 0c48eefae712c2fd91480346a07a1a9cd0f9470b before 2271276ac5279d2d204be7739a1a28d4ef6cf608; affected 0c48eefae712c2fd91480346a07a1a9cd0f9470b before 7ffe529e7127411806c8692fb1490f552c629dc2; affected 0c48eefae712c2fd91480346a07a1a9cd0f9470b before 17b7ef6b86112a4e61cee1e9009a4b318e3225c5; affected 0c48eefae712c2fd91480346a07a1a9cd0f9470b before 250474c69bc3fc48a5fc21d7c349f279caad947a; affected 0c48eefae712c2fd91480346a07a1a9cd0f9470b before 8692655da369961128658cf8539334b6a960ecb0; affected 0c48eefae712c2fd91480346a07a1a9cd0f9470b before 66efd3368ae10d05e08fbe6425b50fdec7186ac7
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.15; unaffected 0 before 5.15; unaffected 6.1.183 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.148 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.101 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.42 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.6 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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