af_unix: Unlink scc_entry in unix_del_edge(). (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80521
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Unlink scc_entry in unix_del_edge(). Kyle Zeng reported that GC could free a dead SCC partially. The scenario is as follows: 1) Create two SCCs: X -. A <-> B ^--' 2) Run the following concurrently: 2-1) send() sk-B to sk-B from sk-X 2-2) close() both A and B At 2-1), there is a small window where unix_add_edges() publishes a new edge (B <-> B) to GC but its skb is not queued by skb_queue_tail(). If 2-2) completes before skb_queue_tail() and GC is triggered, it judges A <-> B as dead, but B is not freed because GC cannot collect the not-yet-queued skb holding the B <-> B edge. X -. A <-> B -. This edge is visible ^--' ^..' but skb is not This itself is not a problem since the next GC run will judge B as dead as well and free it finally. X -. A <.> B -. ^--' ^--' However, X's SCC forces the next GC to call unix_walk_scc_fast(), and it iterates over A through B's scc_entry. Let's unlink scc_entry before freeing the vertex in unix_del_edge().

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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 5dfd283f4651d04dbb70ceb9ae5c4a30eda3c52a < 2b6c2842692d08e7acaf32d1eb47f95def35f3fe ; affected de7921631ff323369aa63a4324695ab54ea4047e < 6fda5c51b8e43a8440f76e65c89d9f95ddb2ef33 ; affected 4090fa373f0e763c43610853d2774b5979915959 < 1293fd69a50d188a5788b08ba3741a3e86be1608 ; affected 4090fa373f0e763c43610853d2774b5979915959 < fe198b077864feafd4aa4b33b1a5ce26f50195a2 ; affected 4090fa373f0e763c43610853d2774b5979915959 < e3702470ced94fad74d71e2232f022d2eb752a6d ; affected 4090fa373f0e763c43610853d2774b5979915959 < 594d905195024b228c962627ae5ae7c17bd582a4
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.10 ; unaffected 0 < 6.10 ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.111 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.53 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

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CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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