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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98276" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:36.837Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:47.879Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98276" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98276.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98276" title: "net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp()\n\nsk-\u003esk_flags must only be changed while holding the socket lock,\nbecause sock_set_flag() and sock_reset_flag() use non atomic\noperations (__set_bit() and __clear_bit()).\n\nsock_gettstamp() is one of the last places where a bit of sk-\u003esk_flags\nis changed from a syscall without owning the socket lock, through\nsock_enable_timestamp(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP).\n\nsk_set_memalloc() and sk_clear_memalloc() also change sk-\u003esk_flags\nwithout the socket lock, but their callers (nbd, iscsi_tcp, nvme-tcp,\nsunrpc, wireguard) need a careful audit, this will be addressed in a\nseparate patch.\n\nJungwoo Lee and Wongi Lee reported an UDP socket use-after-free\ncaused by this bug: a SIOCGSTAMPNS_NEW ioctl racing with bind()\ncan cancel the SOCK_RCU_FREE bit that udp_lib_get_port() just set,\nbecause both threads perform a read-modify-write on the same word.\n\n CPU 0 (bind) CPU 1 (SIOCGSTAMPNS_NEW)\n -------------------------------- ----------------------------\n read sk_flags = F read sk_flags = F\n compute F | BIT(SOCK_RCU_FREE) compute F | BIT(SOCK_TIMESTAMP)\n store F | BIT(SOCK_RCU_FREE)\n sk_add_node_rcu(sk, ...)\n store F | BIT(SOCK_TIMESTAMP)\n\nAfter the lost update, SOCK_RCU_FREE is clear while the socket is\nvisible to lockless UDP receive lookups. sk_destruct() then frees\nthe socket immediately instead of waiting for a RCU grace period,\nwhile the receive path still holds a reference-less pointer to it:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ipv4_pktinfo_prepare+0x30/0x410\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff888008806610 by task exploit/207\n CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 207 Comm: exploit Not tainted 6.12.95+ #1\n ipv4_pktinfo_prepare+0x30/0x410\n udp_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x51c/0x1180\n udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x109/0x350\n ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x14b/0x310\n ip_local_deliver_finish+0x29d/0x390\n ip_local_deliver+0x24d/0x2a0\n\nOnly grab the socket lock when SOCK_TIMESTAMP has to be set,\nto keep the common case lockless." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18899e2e4023369a8f7739c2255a59a9748d8d17"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88c804847dd87dc613b771b392ccecdb94725032"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b12d3967e96f1b7b977d9fc352ae29a1b299a82"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17b2a1eb97fdb2a2cbaeab3b146b26797ea9311f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f73253add8365d0dad0a4f421acaa8c21d20cef"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9f96bc2d822501f84d1caa6275a2c6b316ca2c4"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"899650bbf985b7bfd2a7b808357df9b16e6d6959"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ed55f3dbef4f4adfe65eb03b0c35c53229a8490"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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