# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68294"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:27.423Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:03.595Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68294"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68294.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68294"
title: "net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace\n\nQRTR keeps its entire port and node state in module-global variables\nthat are not partitioned per network namespace: qrtr_local_nid is a\nsingle global node id (always 1) and qrtr_ports is a single global\nxarray. qrtr_port_lookup() and qrtr_local_enqueue() operate on that\nglobal state with no network-namespace check, and qrtr_create() places\nno restriction on the namespace a socket is created in.\n\nAs a result an unprivileged process that creates an AF_QIPCRTR socket\nin a separate network namespace, e.g. via\nunshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNET), can send QRTR datagrams -\nincluding control-plane messages such as QRTR_TYPE_NEW_SERVER - to QRTR\nsockets owned by another namespace, and vice versa. The receiving\nsocket sees such a message as coming from node id 1, indistinguishable\nfrom a legitimate local client, breaking the isolation that network\nnamespaces are expected to provide.\n\nQRTR is a transport to global hardware endpoints (the modem and other\nremote processors) and has no per-namespace semantics; its in-kernel\nname service already creates its socket in init_net only. Confine the\nsocket family to the initial network namespace, as other\nnon-namespace-aware socket families do (see llc_ui_create() and the\nieee802154 socket code)."
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