CVE-2026-81003
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
net/iucv: filter frames in afiucv_hs_rcv() by ingress device
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: filter frames in afiucv_hs_rcv() by ingress device afiucv_hs_rcv() selects a socket from iucv_sk_list by matching four 8-byte name fields in the transport header alone. No check is made against the net_device the frame arrived on. This can cause a frame arriving on any netdev to be delivered to an AF_IUCV socket. Three problems follow. First, a frame arriving over HiperSockets can be delivered to a socket bound to the classic z/VM IUCV transport, which has iucv->hs_dev == NULL. iucv_sock_bind() takes the classic path whenever the requested userid matches iucv_userid, even on a guest that also has a HiperSockets device carrying the same identifier. The child socket created by afiucv_hs_callback_syn() for such a match inherits hs_dev = NULL and transport = AF_IUCV_TRANS_HIPER, so the first send() on it returns -ENODEV. The socket delivered to accept() is unusable. Second, a frame arriving on one netdev can be delivered to a socket bound to a different IQD device. Which can lead to - Accept-queue exhaustion (DoS) - Attacker-controlled peer identity in the child socket - Data injection into existing sockets - Fabric noise on the IQD fabric, where bogus replies are sent - killing established connections Third, all AF_IUCV sockets live in init_net, as iucv_sock_alloc() calls sk_alloc(&init_net, ...). But even frames arriving on netdev devices in a namespace can be delivered to an IUCV socket. So a process in an unprivileged user and network namespace holding only the CAP_NET_RAW capability valid within that namespace can send a raw ETH_P_AF_IUCV frame on its own lo device and have it matched against init_net sockets. Fix all three by skipping any socket whose hs_dev does not match the ingress device. A classic z/VM IUCV socket has hs_dev == NULL; the ingress dev is never NULL, so classic sockets are skipped automatically. An unbound HIPER socket also has hs_dev == NULL and is skipped. A bound HIPER socket is only reachable from the exact IQD device it was bound to. Because hs_dev is always a device in init_net (iucv_sock_bind() scans for_each_netdev_rcu(&init_net, ...) exclusively), a frame whose ingress device belongs to another namespace never matches any socket. Note that AF_IUCV over HiperSockets provides no per-connection authentication: no sequence numbers, no TLS, no nonce. The four name fields identifying a connection are exchanged in plaintext on the shared HiperSockets segment (VCHID). Any host on the same HiperSockets segment could spoof any frame type against an existing connection. That is a protocol-level property unchanged by this patch. The fix reduces the attack surface to peers present on the same HiperSockets segment.
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b | affected | git | 639828ad4d374056167391dbaffd13dd5e5e5ddb | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b | affected | git | 92e5c281f1caa287bb58292f2687c9e3ff3aa23e | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b | affected | git | 712330f8a4293cfd97b0d62b7c7dc01862a16b98 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b | affected | git | 0a5af67e7184c6a0e155c317840bd64b37177af4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b | affected | git | dfac2936b83be00035ae176f8252e1c1e1de9207 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b | affected | git | 8e3763f1ccac3fc395f9af2b87114c023ced8a3f | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b | affected | git | a7f0130a091724e69827ab58e74777a88747e892 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3881ac441f642d56503818123446f7298442236b | affected | git | 80230a18c164a4b5bbc048fe2768b219ac17bc5a | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 3.2 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.270 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.221 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.188 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.157 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.109 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.50 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.2.4 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.2.* | None listed |
| 7.3 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |