PT-2026-116744 · Linux · Linux
CVE-2026-98525
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Published
2026-10-18
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Updated
2026-10-18
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mctp: route: iterate socket tag list in mctp lookup prealloc tag()
When a socket transmits a packet with MCTP TAG PREALLOC set,
mctp lookup prealloc tag() iterates over the per-netns &mns->keys list
and matches netid, req tag, peer addr, and manual alloc, without
checking whether tmp->sk == &msk->sk. This allows any MCTP socket in the
same network namespace to use and consume another socket's preallocated
tag.
Iterate the socket's own tag list (&msk->keys via sklist) instead of the
namespace-wide &mns->keys list in mctp lookup prealloc tag(), ensuring
that only tags allocated by msk are matched.
Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by allocating a manual tag
(0x18) on socket A via SIOCMCTPALLOCTAG for peer EID 9 and sending a
4-byte message with MCTP TAG PREALLOC from socket B in the same network
namespace. On the unfixed kernel, sendto(sock b) using socket A's
preallocated tag succeeds (ret = 4); with this patch applied,
sendto(sock b) fails with -ENOENT (errno = 2) while sendto(sock a)
succeeds (ret = 4).
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