net/x25: fix use-after-free of the socket by its timers (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74628
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.50 % · percentile 43 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/x25: fix use-after-free of the socket by its timers The x25 timers are armed with mod_timer() and cancelled with timer_delete(), so a pending timer holds no reference on the socket and a cancel does not wait for a callback already running on another CPU. x25_heartbeat_expiry() also rearms unconditionally, so it can reinstall sk->sk_timer after __x25_destroy_socket() has passed its cancel point. The following __sock_put() frees the socket while the timer is still queued, and the next expiry uses freed memory. KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free on the kmalloc-2k object freed by close(). timer_delete_sync() cannot be used here: x25_heartbeat_expiry() and x25_timer_expiry() both reach the cancels from inside the timer they would wait on, through __x25_destroy_socket() and x25_disconnect(). Arm the timers with sk_reset_timer() and cancel them with sk_stop_timer() so that an armed timer owns a reference, and release it in both expiry handlers. Rearm the heartbeat only while sk_hashed(sk) is still true, since __x25_destroy_socket() unlinks the socket before dropping it. Arm the deferred destroy timer the same way and drop its reference in x25_destroy_timer(). Reproduced on net with KASAN, with the heartbeat period shortened so the window recurs. With this patch the reproducer no longer triggers a report and /proc/net/x25 drains. Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < ba925a2e98ce967a0e71c5bcbcf5dbd3facaf0c8 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 6b79659590f0f82a9b8efd2ffd55ec6399ebfc33 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < fdd9ac50b9b61ef2b2d52c5156aff788be91454d ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 1fc9f6d2c7c9fdb341bfe8ca449c990632299ea6 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 3c4919be5d910db4beebca420953858606fba7d8 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 4bc522b33438fefc3272840ae5988771863a4f1f
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.12 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.12 ; unaffected 5.10.267 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.217 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.184 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.153 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD