Bug 2493770 (CVE-2026-53292) - CVE-2026-53292 kernel: net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind
Summary: CVE-2026-53292 kernel: net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() o...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53292
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-26 21:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 08:16 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-26 21:06:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind

syzbot reported a kernel BUG triggered from pn_socket_sendmsg() via
pn_socket_autobind():

  kernel BUG at net/phonet/socket.c:213!
  RIP: 0010:pn_socket_autobind net/phonet/socket.c:213 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:pn_socket_sendmsg+0x240/0x250 net/phonet/socket.c:421
  Call Trace:
   sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x112/0x150 net/socket.c:797
   __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:812 [inline]
   __sys_sendto+0x402/0x590 net/socket.c:2280
   ...

pn_socket_autobind() calls pn_socket_bind() with port 0 and, on
-EINVAL, assumes the socket was already bound and asserts that the
port is non-zero:

  err = pn_socket_bind(sock, ..., sizeof(struct sockaddr_pn));
  if (err != -EINVAL)
          return err;
  BUG_ON(!pn_port(pn_sk(sock->sk)->sobject));
  return 0; /* socket was already bound */

However pn_socket_bind() also returns -EINVAL when sk->sk_state is not
TCP_CLOSE, even when the socket has never been bound and pn_port() is
still 0.  In that case the BUG_ON() fires and panics the kernel from a
user-triggerable path.

Treat the "bind returned -EINVAL but pn_port() is still 0" case as a
regular error and propagate -EINVAL to the caller instead of crashing.
Existing callers already translate a non-zero return from
pn_socket_autobind() into -ENOBUFS/-EAGAIN, so returning -EINVAL here
only changes behaviour from panic to a normal errno.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-06-29 08:10:34 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062617-CVE-2026-53292-666f@gregkh/T


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