Bug 2513164 (CVE-2026-68290) - CVE-2026-68290 kernel: Kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in RDS TCP can lead to system instability
Summary: CVE-2026-68290 kernel: Kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in RDS TCP can le...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68290
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-13 15:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:22:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rds: tcp: unregister sysctl before tearing down listen socket

rds_tcp_exit_net() frees the per-netns RDS TCP listen socket via
rds_tcp_kill_sock() before unregistering the per-netns sysctl table.  Since
rds_tcp_skbuf_handler() derives the netns from
rtn->rds_tcp_listen_sock->sk, a concurrent sysctl write can race with
netns teardown and dereference the freed socket/sk.

KASAN reports the race as:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rds_tcp_skbuf_handler+0x2aa/0x2e0
  rds_tcp_skbuf_handler              net/rds/tcp.c:721
  proc_sys_call_handler              fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
  vfs_write                          fs/read_write.c
  __x64_sys_pwrite64                 fs/read_write.c

Fix this by unregistering the RDS TCP sysctl table before calling
rds_tcp_kill_sock().  unregister_net_sysctl_table() prevents new sysctl
handlers from starting and waits for in-flight handlers to finish, so
the listen socket can then be released safely. The fix was tested
against the linked reproducer.


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