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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23460" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:15:40.364Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:07:24.969Z" 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-2026-23460" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23460.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23460" title: "net/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect\n\nsyzkaller reported a bug [1], and the reproducer is available at [2].\n\nROSE sockets use four sk-\u003esk_state values: TCP_CLOSE, TCP_LISTEN,\nTCP_SYN_SENT, and TCP_ESTABLISHED. rose_connect() already rejects\ncalls for TCP_ESTABLISHED (-EISCONN) and TCP_CLOSE with SS_CONNECTING\n(-ECONNREFUSED), but lacks a check for TCP_SYN_SENT.\n\nWhen rose_connect() is called a second time while the first connection\nattempt is still in progress (TCP_SYN_SENT), it overwrites\nrose-\u003eneighbour via rose_get_neigh(). If that returns NULL, the socket\nis left with rose-\u003estate == ROSE_STATE_1 but rose-\u003eneighbour == NULL.\nWhen the socket is subsequently closed, rose_release() sees\nROSE_STATE_1 and calls rose_write_internal() -\u003e\nrose_transmit_link(skb, NULL), causing a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nPer connect(2), a second connect() while a connection is already in\nprogress should return -EALREADY. Add this missing check for\nTCP_SYN_SENT to complete the state validation in rose_connect().\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d00f90e0af54102fb271\n[2] https://gist.github.com/mrpre/9e6779e0d13e2c66779b1653fef80516" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c85fe6580e86947ca07907ebf4363a73c156fda7"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a753844d2a8136f090123c8fb1ff6c7f6ee7c2b3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2ab74c12932e52cfa1e7e4582d42b0c8bec96c7"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c9fb70a206a8734e10468ecc24d57c7596cf64e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"508f49ccbe0329641bb681f7d0052bb4e5943252"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c3e8bff808f17ad37a51d8e719eed22c7863120"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a12254050e3050f1011cd24f3b880a6882d0139d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1f0a18c9564cdb16523c802e2c6fe5874e3d944"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"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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