CVE-2026-98525

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98525
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98525.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98525
Downstream
Published
2026-10-18T15:17:43Z
Modified
2026-10-19T02:46:22Z
Summary
mctp: route: iterate socket tag list in mctp_lookup_prealloc_tag()
Details

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

mctp: route: iterate socket tag list in mctp_lookup_prealloc_tag()

When a socket transmits a packet with MCTP_TAG_PREALLOC set, mctp_lookup_prealloc_tag() iterates over the per-netns &mns->keys list and matches netid, req_tag, peer_addr, and manual_alloc, without checking whether tmp->sk == &msk->sk. This allows any MCTP socket in the same network namespace to use and consume another socket's preallocated tag.

Iterate the socket's own tag list (&msk->keys via sklist) instead of the namespace-wide &mns->keys list in mctp_lookup_prealloc_tag(), ensuring that only tags allocated by msk are matched.

Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by allocating a manual tag (0x18) on socket A via SIOCMCTPALLOCTAG for peer EID 9 and sending a 4-byte message with MCTP_TAG_PREALLOC from socket B in the same network namespace. On the unfixed kernel, sendto(sock_b) using socket A's preallocated tag succeeds (ret = 4); with this patch applied, sendto(sock_b) fails with -ENOENT (errno = 2) while sendto(sock_a) succeeds (ret = 4).

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98525.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
63ed1aab3d40aa61aaa66819bdce9377ac7f40fa
Fixed
09299addab11857e92eca55cd8ef3350b927c90c
Fixed
e35cb500dd14882f8dee61783fccd1823fd3ab0d
Fixed
f178300e2f56ca9ec2a3a0090608730bbee0af7b
Fixed
26cc0e69cce062cd3aa6fae33074684669c35a71

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98525.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.18.0
Fixed
6.12.112
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.55
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98525.json"