Linux Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Rated 7.8 CVSS

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-52947

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

net: qrtr: fix refcount saturation and potential UAF in qrtr_port_remove

In qrtr_port_remove(), the socket reference count is decremented via

__sock_put() before the port is removed from the qrtr_ports XArray and

before the RCU grace period elapses.

This breaks the fundamental RCU update paradigm. It exposes a race

window where a concurrent RCU reader (such as qrtr_reset_ports() or

qrtr_port_lookup()) can obtain a pointer to the socket from the XArray,

and attempt to call sock_hold() on a socket whose reference count has

already dropped to zero.

This exact race condition was hit during syzkaller fuzzing, leading to

the following refcount saturation warning and a potential Use-After-Free:

refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1273 at lib/refcount.c:22 refcount_warn_saturate+0xae/0x1d0

Modules linked in: qrtr(+) bochs drm_shmem_helper ...

Call Trace:

<TASK>

qrtr_reset_ports net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:768 [inline] [qrtr]

__qrtr_bind.isra.0+0x48b/0x570 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:805 [qrtr]

qrtr_bind+0x17d/0x210 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:901 [qrtr]

kernel_bind+0xe4/0x120 net/socket.c:3592

qrtr_ns_init+0x1a6/0x380 net/qrtr/ns.c:715 [qrtr]

qrtr_proto_init+0x3b/0xff0 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:169 [qrtr]

do_one_initcall+0xf5/0x5e0 init/main.c:1283

...

</TASK>

Fix this by deferring the reference count decrement until after the

xa_erase() and the synchronize_rcu() complete.

(Note: The v1 of this patch incorrectly replaced __sock_put() with

sock_put(). As Simon Horman pointed out, the callers of qrtr_port_remove()

still hold a reference to the socket, so freeing the socket memory here

would lead to a subsequent UAF in the caller. Thus, the __sock_put() is

kept, but only repositioned to close the RCU race.) (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's and Siemens's web pages for any future patch releases.

References