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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98525"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:17:43.216Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:07.010Z"
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-2026-98525"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98525.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98525"
title: "mctp: route: iterate socket tag list in mctp_lookup_prealloc_tag()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmctp: route: iterate socket tag list in mctp_lookup_prealloc_tag()\n\nWhen a socket transmits a packet with MCTP_TAG_PREALLOC set,\nmctp_lookup_prealloc_tag() iterates over the per-netns &mns-\u003ekeys list\nand matches netid, req_tag, peer_addr, and manual_alloc, without\nchecking whether tmp-\u003esk == &msk-\u003esk. This allows any MCTP socket in the\nsame network namespace to use and consume another socket's preallocated\ntag.\n\nIterate the socket's own tag list (&msk-\u003ekeys via sklist) instead of the\nnamespace-wide &mns-\u003ekeys list in mctp_lookup_prealloc_tag(), ensuring\nthat only tags allocated by msk are matched.\n\nTested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by allocating a manual tag\n(0x18) on socket A via SIOCMCTPALLOCTAG for peer EID 9 and sending a\n4-byte message with MCTP_TAG_PREALLOC from socket B in the same network\nnamespace. On the unfixed kernel, sendto(sock_b) using socket A's\npreallocated tag succeeds (ret = 4); with this patch applied,\nsendto(sock_b) fails with -ENOENT (errno = 2) while sendto(sock_a)\nsucceeds (ret = 4)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"63ed1aab3d40aa61aaa66819bdce9377ac7f40fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"09299addab11857e92eca55cd8ef3350b927c90c"},{"version":"63ed1aab3d40aa61aaa66819bdce9377ac7f40fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e35cb500dd14882f8dee61783fccd1823fd3ab0d"},{"version":"63ed1aab3d40aa61aaa66819bdce9377ac7f40fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f178300e2f56ca9ec2a3a0090608730bbee0af7b"},{"version":"63ed1aab3d40aa61aaa66819bdce9377ac7f40fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26cc0e69cce062cd3aa6fae33074684669c35a71"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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