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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-99042"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:22:01.804Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:22:01.804Z"
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-2026-99042"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99042.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99042"
title: "io_uring/net: populate CONNECT filter fields for 24-byte sockaddr_in6"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/net: populate CONNECT filter fields for 24-byte sockaddr_in6\n\nio_connect_bpf_populate() fills connect.port and connect.v6_addr for\nAF_INET6 only when addr_len \u003e= sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6), i.e. 28\nbytes.\n\nThe IPv6 connect paths accept SIN6_LEN_RFC2133 (24 bytes), which\nalready holds sin6_port and sin6_addr. io_connect() passes addr_len to\nthe socket layer unchanged.\n\nAt addr_len 24 the filter sees family AF_INET6 with port and address\nzero, while the kernel connects to the real destination. A filter that\ndenies an IPv6 port or address is bypassed. Denying connect.port == P\nrejects [::1]:P with -EACCES at addr_len 28 but connects at addr_len 24.\n\nUse SIN6_LEN_RFC2133 as the threshold. sin6_scope_id stays zero when\nabsent.\n\nThe threshold mismatch was found by an AI coding assistant (Claude Code)\ncomparing this hook against the net/ipv6 length checks on my\ninstructions; it also drafted the reproducer and this patch. I verified\nthe bypass and the fix in a VM on 7.3-rc6 and that 7.2 has the same\ncode."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"899bea8248cee35d54760a5e7d61a76af8e64411","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"596a955d2d01b7e29d9fed60ebcf7c4ba518b8e5"},{"version":"899bea8248cee35d54760a5e7d61a76af8e64411","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa5d5f8e502318e783545ba5d04bb40130b83e20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.2"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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