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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23450" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:15:33.144Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:44.407Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23450" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23450.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23450" title: "net/smc: fix NULL dereference and UAF in smc_tcp_syn_recv_sock()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix NULL dereference and UAF in smc_tcp_syn_recv_sock()\n\nSyzkaller reported a panic in smc_tcp_syn_recv_sock() [1].\n\nsmc_tcp_syn_recv_sock() is called in the TCP receive path\n(softirq) via icsk_af_ops-\u003esyn_recv_sock on the clcsock (TCP\nlistening socket). It reads sk_user_data to get the smc_sock\npointer. However, when the SMC listen socket is being closed\nconcurrently, smc_close_active() sets clcsock-\u003esk_user_data\nto NULL under sk_callback_lock, and then the smc_sock itself\ncan be freed via sock_put() in smc_release().\n\nThis leads to two issues:\n\n1) NULL pointer dereference: sk_user_data is NULL when\n accessed.\n2) Use-after-free: sk_user_data is read as non-NULL, but the\n smc_sock is freed before its fields (e.g., queued_smc_hs,\n ori_af_ops) are accessed.\n\nThe race window looks like this (the syzkaller crash [1]\ntriggers via the SYN cookie path: tcp_get_cookie_sock() -\u003e\nsmc_tcp_syn_recv_sock(), but the normal tcp_check_req() path\nhas the same race):\n\n CPU A (softirq) CPU B (process ctx)\n\n tcp_v4_rcv()\n TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV:\n sk = req-\u003ersk_listener\n sock_hold(sk)\n /* No lock on listener */\n smc_close_active():\n write_lock_bh(cb_lock)\n sk_user_data = NULL\n write_unlock_bh(cb_lock)\n ...\n smc_clcsock_release()\n sock_put(smc-\u003esk) x2\n -\u003e smc_sock freed!\n tcp_check_req()\n smc_tcp_syn_recv_sock():\n smc = user_data(sk)\n -\u003e NULL or dangling\n smc-\u003equeued_smc_hs\n -\u003e crash!\n\nNote that the clcsock and smc_sock are two independent objects\nwith separate refcounts. TCP stack holds a reference on the\nclcsock, which keeps it alive, but this does NOT prevent the\nsmc_sock from being freed.\n\nFix this by using RCU and refcount_inc_not_zero() to safely\naccess smc_sock. Since smc_tcp_syn_recv_sock() is called in\nthe TCP three-way handshake path, taking read_lock_bh on\nsk_callback_lock is too heavy and would not survive a SYN\nflood attack. Using rcu_read_lock() is much more lightweight.\n\n- Set SOCK_RCU_FREE on the SMC listen socket so that\n smc_sock freeing is deferred until after the RCU grace\n period. This guarantees the memory is still valid when\n accessed inside rcu_read_lock().\n- Use rcu_read_lock() to protect reading sk_user_data.\n- Use refcount_inc_not_zero(&smc-\u003esk.sk_refcnt) to pin the\n smc_sock. If the refcount has already reached zero (close\n path completed), it returns false and we bail out safely.\n\nNote: smc_hs_congested() has a similar lockless read of\nsk_user_data without rcu_read_lock(), but it only checks for\nNULL and accesses the global smc_hs_wq, never dereferencing\nany smc_sock field, so it is not affected.\n\nReproducer was verified with mdelay injection and smc_run,\nthe issue no longer occurs with this patch applied.\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=827ae2bfb3a3529333e9" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ebfee3e153f67c8b38eb94a7062ee94aa6f92708","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f315277856caeafcd996c2611afc085ca2d53275"},{"version":"8270d9c21041470f58348248b9d9dcf3bf79592e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e4f873879e075bbd4eb1c644d6933303ac5eba4"},{"version":"8270d9c21041470f58348248b9d9dcf3bf79592e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f00fc26c8a06442b225a350fe000c0a11483e6a3"},{"version":"8270d9c21041470f58348248b9d9dcf3bf79592e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cadf3da46c15523fba90d80c9955f536ee3b4023"},{"version":"8270d9c21041470f58348248b9d9dcf3bf79592e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd7579f0a2c84ba8a7d4f206201b50dc8ddf90c2"},{"version":"8270d9c21041470f58348248b9d9dcf3bf79592e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fab5ece76fb42a761178dcd0ebcbf578377b0dd"},{"version":"8270d9c21041470f58348248b9d9dcf3bf79592e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d5e4538364b9ceb1ac2941a4deb86650afb3538"},{"version":"5.15.174","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.203"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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