CVE-2026-90065

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90065
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90065.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-90065
Downstream
Published
2026-09-17T16:05:48Z
Modified
2026-09-19T03:47:31Z
Summary
net/smc: release the internal TCP sock on IPPROTO_SMC socket creation failure
Details

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

net/smc: release the internal TCP sock on IPPROTO_SMC socket creation failure

IPPROTO_SMC sockets create an internal TCP sock ("clcsock") from the proto->init hook. When socket creation fails after proto->init has run - e.g. a cgroup BPF program attached to BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE denies the socket - sk_common_release() only invokes sk_prot->destroy if it is set, but neither smc_inet_prot nor smc_inet6_prot defines it, and smc_destruct() returns early unless sk_state is SMC_CLOSED. As a result, every failing socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SMC) call leaks one tcp_sock, so an unprivileged task able to attach a deny-all BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE program to its own cgroup can grow kernel memory unboundedly.

Add a .destroy hook to both protos that releases the clcsock via smc_clcsock_release(). smc_sk_init() hashes the sock into the smc hashinfo before the clcsock is created, and smc_diag dumps walk that hash dereferencing smc->clcsock without taking clcsock_release_lock, while sk_common_release() calls .destroy before .unhash. Unhash the sock before releasing the clcsock, as __smc_release() does, so a concurrent dump cannot observe the release; the second unhash in sk_common_release() is a no-op.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90065.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78
Fixed
2f4ece7fed6d915ec64b7735962c0d84d6261032
Fixed
84180988a455fd8e147c6b35c8df65d8b8cc76c2
Fixed
94a913cd521c0f0408820bcdbd80dadf076d97b5
Fixed
cec261b0b4c5c0b044165303198d10ffcdf3414c

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90065.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.11.0
Fixed
6.12.110
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.52
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90065.json"