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CVE-2026-90138

vsock: don't check the listener's sk_err in vsock_accept()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vsock: don't check the listener's sk_err in vsock_accept()

Syzbot reported an issue which can be reproduced with these steps:
	r0 = socket(AF_VSOCK, SOCK_STREAM, 0)
	bind(r0, {VMADDR_CID_ANY, PORT})
	connect(r0, {VMADDR_CID_LOCAL, PORT}) -> -1, EPROTO (self-connect)
	listen(r0, backlog)                   -> 0
	r1 = socket(AF_VSOCK, SOCK_STREAM, 0)
	connect(r1, {VMADDR_CID_LOCAL, PORT}) -> 0
	accept(r0)                            -> -1, EPROTO (stale sk_err)

Basically, it creates a socket (r0) and triggers a self-connect after
binding it. This self-connect fails with EPROTO because it loops back
to r0 while the socket is still in the TCP_SYN_SENT state, causing it
to be incorrectly dispatched to the connecting-client path. The
unexpected packet type encountered there sets sk_err to EPROTO.

After that, it invokes a listen() call on the same socket. This
listen() call succeeds because the kernel's listening path never
inspects or clears sk_err. Then, a new socket (r1) is created as a
normal client and connects to r0. However, vsock_accept() rejects this
incoming connection because the listener's sk_err still holds the
EPROTO error from the earlier failed self-connect.

This rejection causes the child socket created for r1's connection to
never be freed on virtio or hyperv transports; only the VMCI transport
implements pending_work to revisit and clean up a rejected socket.

For a non-blocking connect(), vsock_connect() may return -EINPROGRESS
immediately, and vsock_connect_timeout() can later set sk->sk_err
asynchronously.

Since no vsock transport ever sets sk_err on a socket while it is in
TCP_LISTEN state, checking it in vsock_accept() serves no purpose and
only carries forward errors left behind by earlier, unrelated
connection attempts on the same socket. Remove the checks so accept()
no longer rejects valid incoming connections because of a stale
error, which also avoids the resource leak described above.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch das CVE Programm von einer CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) (Unstrukturiert).
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
Version < c5a75d37c21e558cc6fad1597e732ead30745eed
Status affected
Version d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
Version < 36e5fa009f98a4edbe1783ac11c0df672b224742
Status affected
Version d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
Version < 491b368a0c6e5f28b615a50b0d384f5c25fde2a7
Status affected
Version d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238
Version < b8c899cf5e7be29840a172c183dedd8d3e7a0287
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 3.9
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 3.9
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.110
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.52
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.2.*
Version 7.2.6
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.3-rc1
Status unaffected
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5a75d37c21e558cc6fad1597e732ead30745eed
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e5fa009f98a4edbe1783ac11c0df672b224742
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/491b368a0c6e5f28b615a50b0d384f5c25fde2a7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8c899cf5e7be29840a172c183dedd8d3e7a0287