net/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-23460
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect syzkaller reported a bug [1], and the reproducer is available at [2]. ROSE sockets use four sk->sk_state values: TCP_CLOSE, TCP_LISTEN, TCP_SYN_SENT, and TCP_ESTABLISHED. rose_connect() already rejects calls for TCP_ESTABLISHED (-EISCONN) and TCP_CLOSE with SS_CONNECTING (-ECONNREFUSED), but lacks a check for TCP_SYN_SENT. When rose_connect() is called a second time while the first connection attempt is still in progress (TCP_SYN_SENT), it overwrites rose->neighbour via rose_get_neigh(). If that returns NULL, the socket is left with rose->state == ROSE_STATE_1 but rose->neighbour == NULL. When the socket is subsequently closed, rose_release() sees ROSE_STATE_1 and calls rose_write_internal() -> rose_transmit_link(skb, NULL), causing a NULL pointer dereference. Per connect(2), a second connect() while a connection is already in progress should return -EALREADY. Add this missing check for TCP_SYN_SENT to complete the state validation in rose_connect(). [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d00f90e0af54102fb271 [2] https://gist.github.com/mrpre/9e6779e0d13e2c66779b1653fef80516

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < c85fe6580e86947ca07907ebf4363a73c156fda7 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < a753844d2a8136f090123c8fb1ff6c7f6ee7c2b3 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < c2ab74c12932e52cfa1e7e4582d42b0c8bec96c7 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 0c9fb70a206a8734e10468ecc24d57c7596cf64e ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 508f49ccbe0329641bb681f7d0052bb4e5943252 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 0c3e8bff808f17ad37a51d8e719eed22c7863120
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.12 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.12 ; unaffected 5.10.253 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.203 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.167 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.130 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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