CVE-2026-72242

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

selinux: avoid sksocket dereference in selinuxsctpbindconnect()

selinuxsctpbindconnect() dereferences sk->sksocket to pass a struct socket * to selinuxsocketbind() and selinuxsocketconnecthelper(). However, when the hook is invoked from the ASCONF softirq path (sctpprocessasconf), there is no file reference guaranteeing that sk->sksocket is non-NULL. The setsockopt callers (bindx, connectx, set_primary, sendmsg connect) hold a file reference and are not affected.

Both selinuxsocketbind() and selinuxsocketconnecthelper() immediately resolve sock->sk, never using the struct socket * for anything else. Refactor the inner logic into helpers that take a struct sock * directly so that selinuxsctpbindconnect() never needs to touch sk->sk_socket at all.