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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90138" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:36.528Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:01.407Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-90138" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90138.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90138" title: "vsock: don't check the listener's sk_err in vsock_accept()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock: don't check the listener's sk_err in vsock_accept()\n\nSyzbot reported an issue which can be reproduced with these steps:\n\tr0 = socket(AF_VSOCK, SOCK_STREAM, 0)\n\tbind(r0, {VMADDR_CID_ANY, PORT})\n\tconnect(r0, {VMADDR_CID_LOCAL, PORT}) -\u003e -1, EPROTO (self-connect)\n\tlisten(r0, backlog) -\u003e 0\n\tr1 = socket(AF_VSOCK, SOCK_STREAM, 0)\n\tconnect(r1, {VMADDR_CID_LOCAL, PORT}) -\u003e 0\n\taccept(r0) -\u003e -1, EPROTO (stale sk_err)\n\nBasically, it creates a socket (r0) and triggers a self-connect after\nbinding it. This self-connect fails with EPROTO because it loops back\nto r0 while the socket is still in the TCP_SYN_SENT state, causing it\nto be incorrectly dispatched to the connecting-client path. The\nunexpected packet type encountered there sets sk_err to EPROTO.\n\nAfter that, it invokes a listen() call on the same socket. This\nlisten() call succeeds because the kernel's listening path never\ninspects or clears sk_err. Then, a new socket (r1) is created as a\nnormal client and connects to r0. However, vsock_accept() rejects this\nincoming connection because the listener's sk_err still holds the\nEPROTO error from the earlier failed self-connect.\n\nThis rejection causes the child socket created for r1's connection to\nnever be freed on virtio or hyperv transports; only the VMCI transport\nimplements pending_work to revisit and clean up a rejected socket.\n\nFor a non-blocking connect(), vsock_connect() may return -EINPROGRESS\nimmediately, and vsock_connect_timeout() can later set sk-\u003esk_err\nasynchronously.\n\nSince no vsock transport ever sets sk_err on a socket while it is in\nTCP_LISTEN state, checking it in vsock_accept() serves no purpose and\nonly carries forward errors left behind by earlier, unrelated\nconnection attempts on the same socket. Remove the checks so accept()\nno longer rejects valid incoming connections because of a stale\nerror, which also avoids the resource leak described above." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64348c55dd7596ca2c033dcd102af44bdd7e8acd"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5a75d37c21e558cc6fad1597e732ead30745eed"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36e5fa009f98a4edbe1783ac11c0df672b224742"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"491b368a0c6e5f28b615a50b0d384f5c25fde2a7"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8c899cf5e7be29840a172c183dedd8d3e7a0287"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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