net: smc: fix splice entry lifetime imbalance in smc_rx_splice (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74631
HIGH 8.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: smc: fix splice entry lifetime imbalance in smc_rx_splice smc_rx_splice() passes pages to splice_to_pipe() before taking the references that cover the lifetime of each splice entry. In the VM-backed RMB path, splice_to_pipe() may drop unqueued entries through smc_rx_spd_release(), while queued entries are released later via the pipe buffer callback. The old post-splice accounting also derives the number of queued VM pages from an offset mutated while building the descriptor, and a multi-page splice pairs one sock_hold() with multiple sock_put() calls. Take the page and socket references for every candidate entry before splice_to_pipe(), and drop the matching private state, page reference, and socket reference from smc_rx_spd_release() for entries that never get queued. This fixes a refcount imbalance that can underflow page refcounts and trigger a use-after-free.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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 9014db202cb764b8e14c53e7bacc81f9a1a2ba7f < 7ddc7af2ae7fc5a0c0635b245c0824c8b76de5cb ; affected 9014db202cb764b8e14c53e7bacc81f9a1a2ba7f < 07ad246529d136d5ef441d5ab4c305d132ff3090 ; affected 9014db202cb764b8e14c53e7bacc81f9a1a2ba7f < c841789e456ec6751342fa800639ce8e82ff0e6b ; affected 9014db202cb764b8e14c53e7bacc81f9a1a2ba7f < af02c67ce654356c58db20a0bb2db33ace3b07a8 ; affected 9014db202cb764b8e14c53e7bacc81f9a1a2ba7f < ca8342b5fc24c249fdb998468f6a168b457c67e5 ; affected 9014db202cb764b8e14c53e7bacc81f9a1a2ba7f < 0b7d54cedea5cb158e21925ae0c6c2f5c87ed2a0
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.18 ; unaffected 0 < 4.18 ; unaffected 5.10.266 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.217 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.183 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.152 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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