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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68335" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:11.547Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:05.269Z" 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-2026-68335" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68335.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68335" title: "rds: drop incoming messages that cross network namespace boundaries" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrds: drop incoming messages that cross network namespace boundaries\n\nrds_find_bound() looks up the destination socket using a global\nrhashtable keyed solely on (addr, port, scope_id). Network namespaces\nare not part of the key, so a sender in netns A can deliver an incoming\nmessage (inc) to a socket that lives in a different netns B.\n\nWhen this happens, inc-\u003ei_conn points to an rds_connection whose c_net\nis netns A, but the receiving rs lives in netns B. Once the child\nprocess that created netns A exits, cleanup_net() calls\nrds_loop_exit_net() -\u003e rds_loop_kill_conns() -\u003e rds_conn_destroy(),\nfreeing that connection. If the survivor socket in netns B still holds\nthe inc, any subsequent dereference of inc-\u003ei_conn is a use-after-free.\n\nThere are two dangerous sites in rds_clear_recv_queue():\n 1. inc-\u003ei_conn-\u003ec_lcong (offset 88 of freed rds_connection, size 200)\n read via rds_recv_rcvbuf_delta() -- confirmed by KASAN.\n 2. inc-\u003ei_conn-\u003ec_trans-\u003einc_free(inc) (function pointer at offset 80)\n called via rds_inc_put() when the inc refcount reaches zero -- same\n race window, potential call-through-freed-object primitive.\n\nThe bug is reachable from unprivileged user namespaces\n(CLONE_NEWUSER + CLONE_NEWNET), available since Linux 3.8.\n\nFix this by rejecting the delivery in rds_recv_incoming() when the\nsocket returned by rds_find_bound() belongs to a different network\nnamespace than the connection that carried the message. Use the\nexisting rds_conn_net() / sock_net() helpers and net_eq() for the\ncomparison." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"742ff6f02545212e991cd8b45011e40d2c2ef25a"},{"version":"c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"abff41fd928328bbf3dda1140beb2e61fa424ccd"},{"version":"c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03c574112e5d066df0ddce36d7438e850bcf3050"},{"version":"c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e2e2d9806944fe485824d617c8b7c78116c22db"},{"version":"c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfb3ce07b705e486e022a2f2b1242b48f13981ff"},{"version":"c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9591042533140dfe6608d9344806d567dcd39d02"},{"version":"c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f8690e3869109cd5803ccb400889d20a0b54e0e"},{"version":"c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5521ae71e32a8069ed4ca6e792179dc57bc43ab2"},{"version":"c827073c95fde388bc65fe5227f944eaf859b9f0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.17.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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