CVE-2026-52947

net: qrtr: fix refcount saturation and potential UAF in qrtr_port_remove

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: June 24, 2026 at 04:26 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 08:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qrtr: fix refcount saturation and potential UAF in qrtr_port_remove In qrtr_port_remove(), the socket reference count is decremented via __sock_put() before the port is removed from the qrtr_ports XArray and before the RCU grace period elapses. This breaks the fundamental RCU update paradigm. It exposes a race window where a concurrent RCU reader (such as qrtr_reset_ports() or qrtr_port_lookup()) can obtain a pointer to the socket from the XArray, and attempt to call sock_hold() on a socket whose reference count has already dropped to zero. This exact race condition was hit during syzkaller fuzzing, leading to the following refcount saturation warning and a potential Use-After-Free: refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory. WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1273 at lib/refcount.c:22 refcount_warn_saturate+0xae/0x1d0 Modules linked in: qrtr(+) bochs drm_shmem_helper ... Call Trace: <TASK> qrtr_reset_ports net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:768 [inline] [qrtr] __qrtr_bind.isra.0+0x48b/0x570 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:805 [qrtr] qrtr_bind+0x17d/0x210 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:901 [qrtr] kernel_bind+0xe4/0x120 net/socket.c:3592 qrtr_ns_init+0x1a6/0x380 net/qrtr/ns.c:715 [qrtr] qrtr_proto_init+0x3b/0xff0 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:169 [qrtr] do_one_initcall+0xf5/0x5e0 init/main.c:1283 ... </TASK> Fix this by deferring the reference count decrement until after the xa_erase() and the synchronize_rcu() complete. (Note: The v1 of this patch incorrectly replaced __sock_put() with sock_put(). As Simon Horman pointed out, the callers of qrtr_port_remove() still hold a reference to the socket, so freeing the socket memory here would lead to a subsequent UAF in the caller. Thus, the __sock_put() is kept, but only repositioned to close the RCU race.)

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.7 ≤ v < 5.10.2595.11 ≤ v < 5.15.2105.16 ≤ v < 6.1.1766.13 ≤ v < 6.18.366.19 ≤ v < 7.0.136.2 ≤ v < 6.6.1436.7 ≤ v < 6.12.947.17.1 rc17.1 rc27.1 rc37.1 rc47.1 rc57.1 rc67.1 rc7bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881
Vendor states this is fixed in 03bfa95e452e2b6ccd76a332060ae4feaf5ad84d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2047c2aa0963bb2872fd722300a15bcb441a4c00 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2aa4c12723fe432e623462a3be42a197a128722b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3b20ec8f31e8a6a6782243f473b0abd3463621df (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 474293d90880622fde9d2430fb0165767090f7b3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7de2d447072be3b1a76793f034432338fc9c494b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a2171131ecda1ed61a594a1eb715e75fdad0fef5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ab269990ed58143a92a263be1bee626d82ac03da (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.259 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.210 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.176 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.94 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.36 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.143 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416CWE-362

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