{"id":"CVE-2026-64115","revision":"055c85f9a3f94db099e3846d8d24e3fe","records":[{"revision":"055c85f9a3f94db099e3846d8d24e3fe","observedAt":"2026-10-23T15:48:27.903+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2026-64115","aliases":[],"title":"vsock/vmci: fix UAF when peer resets connection during handshake","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock/vmci: fix UAF when peer resets connection during handshake\n\nvmci_transport_recv_connecting_server() returned err = 0 for a peer\nRST in its default switch arm:\n\n\terr = pkt->type == VMCI_TRANSPORT_PACKET_TYPE_RST ? 0 : -EINVAL;\n\nThat made vmci_transport_recv_listen() skip vsock_remove_pending(),\nleaving the pending socket on the listener's pending_links with\nsk_state = TCP_CLOSE while destroy: still dropped the explicit\nreference taken before schedule_delayed_work().\n\nOne second later vsock_pending_work() observed is_pending=true and\nperformed full cleanup: vsock_remove_pending() then the two trailing\nsock_put(sk) calls -- the first reached refcount 0 and __sk_freed\nthe socket, and the second wrote into the freed object:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in refcount_warn_saturate\n  Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800b1cac80 by task kworker\n  Workqueue: events vsock_pending_work\n\nTreat peer RST like any other unexpected packet type (err = -EINVAL).\nAll destroy: arms now return err < 0, so vmci_transport_recv_listen()\nremoves pending from pending_links synchronously and\nvsock_pending_work() takes the is_pending=false / !rejected branch,\ndropping only its own work reference.  This also closes the\nmulti-packet race Sashiko reported on v2: pending is removed from\nthe list before any subsequent packet can find it.\n\nThe pre-existing sk_acceptq_removed() gap on the err < 0 path of\nvmci_transport_recv_listen() that Sashiko also noted is not\nintroduced or changed by this patch.\n\nTested on lts-6.12.79 with KASAN: 52/100 unpatched -> 0/100 patched.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-07-19T15:40:15.513+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-19T20:28:12.821+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n                    \"product\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"defaultStatus\": \"unaffected\",\n                    \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n                    \"programFiles\": [\n                        \"net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c\"\n                    ],\n                    \"versions\": [\n    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\"versionType\": \"git\"\n                        },\n                        {\n                            \"version\": \"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238\",\n                            \"lessThan\": \"9fe74e42914c851d68069713b7b917a9c33faf26\",\n                            \"status\": \"affected\",\n                            \"versionType\": \"git\"\n                        },\n                        {\n                            \"version\": \"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238\",\n                            \"lessThan\": \"99e22ddf4edb63dc8382bc028af928056d3450cf\",\n                            \"status\": \"affected\",\n                            \"versionType\": \"git\"\n                        }\n                    ]\n                }"},{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n                    \"product\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n                    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