CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80738
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Check sk_state before sk_protocol in bpf_tcp_*_syncookie
bpf_tcp_gen_syncookie and bpf_tcp_check_syncookie accept a socket pointer
'sk' with argument type ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID_SOCK_COMMON. However, they access
sk->sk_protocol without validating whether 'sk' represents a full socket.
Fix this issue by checking sk->sk_state != TCP_LISTEN before inspecting
sk->sk_protocol in both bpf_tcp_gen_syncookie and bpf_tcp_check_syncookie.
Since mini-sockets are never in the TCP_LISTEN state, the condition
short-circuits and prevents dereferencing fullsock-specific fields.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22c2169770ad3b3595690e51caac875178cf496d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23f682083aa3fbc0c49667818efd6979a8bc5ac2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31a420a822ff92e2090bd5d65efe8e34e2d6d9b8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5702e4c259809c760912c477c4ae34e9217bb4d9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5525e853a2a08a9559adb84b0616025958dc542 git.kernel.org