Bug 2555012 (CVE-2026-98525) - CVE-2026-98525 kernel: mctp: route: iterate socket tag list in mctp_lookup_prealloc_tag()
Summary: CVE-2026-98525 kernel: mctp: route: iterate socket tag list in mctp_lookup_pr...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98525
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-19 16:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:39:10 UTC
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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