CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98525
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
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).
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09299addab11857e92eca55cd8ef3350b927c90c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26cc0e69cce062cd3aa6fae33074684669c35a71 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e35cb500dd14882f8dee61783fccd1823fd3ab0d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f178300e2f56ca9ec2a3a0090608730bbee0af7b git.kernel.org