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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98581" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:54.696Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:07.016Z" 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-2026-98581" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98581.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98581" title: "nfc: llcp: Fix list corruption / refcount desync in nfc_llcp_recv_dm()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: llcp: Fix list corruption / refcount desync in nfc_llcp_recv_dm()\n\nnfc_llcp_recv_dm() handles DM(NOBOUND)/DM(REJ) for a socket that is still\nlinked on local-\u003econnecting_sockets: it looks the socket up with\nnfc_llcp_connecting_sock_get(), sets sk-\u003esk_state = LLCP_CLOSED and\nreturns, without taking the socket lock and without unlinking the socket\nfrom the connecting_sockets list.\n\nllcp_sock_release() selects the list to unlink from by sk_state: a socket\nin LLCP_CONNECTING is unlinked from connecting_sockets, otherwise from the\nsockets list. Because recv_dm left the socket physically on\nconnecting_sockets but in the LLCP_CLOSED state, release() takes the else\nbranch and calls nfc_llcp_sock_unlink(&local-\u003esockets, sk). That runs\nsk_del_node_init() while holding sockets.lock, i.e. it removes the socket\nfrom the connecting_sockets hlist under the wrong lock. A concurrent\nconnect() linking another socket onto connecting_sockets under\nconnecting_sockets.lock then mutates the same hlist unserialized, which\ncorrupts the list and desyncs the sk_add_node()/sk_del_node_init()\nsock_hold()/__sock_put() pairing. An unprivileged local process holding\nLLCP sockets, with the DM supplied by the remote peer over an established\nLLCP link, can drive this to leak kernel sockets without bound (the\nmis-decrement goes through the non-freeing __sock_put() path, so the\nobject is never released), leading to memory exhaustion / DoS.\n\nThis is the same class of bug that was fixed in the sibling handler\nnfc_llcp_recv_cc() by commit b493ea2765cc (\"nfc: llcp: Fix use-after-free\nrace in nfc_llcp_recv_cc()\"); recv_dm did not receive the equivalent fix.\n\nFix it the same way: take lock_sock(), re-check that the socket is still\nhashed (release() may have won the race), and for the NOBOUND/REJ case\nunlink it from connecting_sockets before moving it to LLCP_CLOSED. The\nunlink drops the connecting_sockets membership reference via\nsk_del_node_init(), leaving the socket unhashed, so the later\nnfc_llcp_sock_unlink() in llcp_sock_release() becomes a no-op and no\ndouble put occurs." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd2d24add86b3b63cd87cf2feff98ae119ba19a6"},{"version":"a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"812731dd8511f5768f4ff279b3c18d85cd21da4b"},{"version":"a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dba1d9c7134afcb4b1bfad8c1b1b3f0ab5189b08"},{"version":"a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1e9ed52a6697354366dddf190fbacee8ed2f7c5"},{"version":"a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fb2c0eeb79bfad64065f539a453138abd0edda6"},{"version":"a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b94cf09720543cc34256c7aa88f8059cbe7c0419"},{"version":"a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"320a2ff49bdce3f9a437b9a9ff341ff27d3bdbf1"},{"version":"a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf1460acdf8cf5a07c819f59785d40f20d113099"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.6"},{"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":"6.18.55","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"}] ## 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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