CVE-2026-68335

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-68335

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

rds: drop incoming messages that cross network namespace boundaries

rds_find_bound() looks up the destination socket using a global

rhashtable keyed solely on (addr, port, scope_id). Network namespaces

are not part of the key, so a sender in netns A can deliver an incoming

message (inc) to a socket that lives in a different netns B.

When this happens, inc->i_conn points to an rds_connection whose c_net

is netns A, but the receiving rs lives in netns B. Once the child

process that created netns A exits, cleanup_net() calls

rds_loop_exit_net() -> rds_loop_kill_conns() -> rds_conn_destroy(),

freeing that connection. If the survivor socket in netns B still holds

the inc, any subsequent dereference of inc->i_conn is a use-after-free.

There are two dangerous sites in rds_clear_recv_queue():

1. inc->i_conn->c_lcong (offset 88 of freed rds_connection, size 200)

read via rds_recv_rcvbuf_delta() -- confirmed by KASAN.

2. inc->i_conn->c_trans->inc_free(inc) (function pointer at offset 80)

called via rds_inc_put() when the inc refcount reaches zero -- same

race window, potential call-through-freed-object primitive.

The bug is reachable from unprivileged user namespaces

(CLONE_NEWUSER + CLONE_NEWNET), available since Linux 3.8.

Fix this by rejecting the delivery in rds_recv_incoming() when the

socket returned by rds_find_bound() belongs to a different network

namespace than the connection that carried the message. Use the

existing rds_conn_net() / sock_net() helpers and net_eq() for the

comparison. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References