CVE-2026-68335

rds: drop incoming messages that cross network namespace boundaries

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 10, 2026 at 12:03 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:17 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: rds: drop incoming messages that cross network namespace boundaries rds_find_bound() looks up the destination socket using a global rhashtable keyed solely on (addr, port, scope_id). Network namespaces are not part of the key, so a sender in netns A can deliver an incoming message (inc) to a socket that lives in a different netns B. When this happens, inc->i_conn points to an rds_connection whose c_net is netns A, but the receiving rs lives in netns B. Once the child process that created netns A exits, cleanup_net() calls rds_loop_exit_net() -> rds_loop_kill_conns() -> rds_conn_destroy(), freeing that connection. If the survivor socket in netns B still holds the inc, any subsequent dereference of inc->i_conn is a use-after-free. There are two dangerous sites in rds_clear_recv_queue(): 1. inc->i_conn->c_lcong (offset 88 of freed rds_connection, size 200) read via rds_recv_rcvbuf_delta() -- confirmed by KASAN. 2. inc->i_conn->c_trans->inc_free(inc) (function pointer at offset 80) called via rds_inc_put() when the inc refcount reaches zero -- same race window, potential call-through-freed-object primitive. The bug is reachable from unprivileged user namespaces (CLONE_NEWUSER + CLONE_NEWNET), available since Linux 3.8. Fix this by rejecting the delivery in rds_recv_incoming() when the socket returned by rds_find_bound() belongs to a different network namespace than the connection that carried the message. Use the existing rds_conn_net() / sock_net() helpers and net_eq() for the comparison.

Affected

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

4.17.194.18c809195f5523dd4d09403bbb1c9732d548aa0d1ec827073c95fde388bc65fe5227f944eaf859b9f0
Vendor states this is fixed in 03c574112e5d066df0ddce36d7438e850bcf3050 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0f8690e3869109cd5803ccb400889d20a0b54e0e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1e2e2d9806944fe485824d617c8b7c78116c22db (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5521ae71e32a8069ed4ca6e792179dc57bc43ab2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 742ff6f02545212e991cd8b45011e40d2c2ef25a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9591042533140dfe6608d9344806d567dcd39d02 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in abff41fd928328bbf3dda1140beb2e61fa424ccd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cfb3ce07b705e486e022a2f2b1242b48f13981ff (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.101 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusRECEIVED
CWE
CWE-416

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