CVE-2026-72242: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
selinux: avoid sk_socket dereference in selinux_sctp_bind_connect()
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.7%
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
selinux: avoid sk_socket dereference in selinux_sctp_bind_connect()
selinux_sctp_bind_connect() dereferences sk->sk_socket to pass a
struct socket * to selinux_socket_bind() and
selinux_socket_connect_helper(). However, when the hook is invoked
from the ASCONF softirq path (sctp_process_asconf), there is no file
reference guaranteeing that sk->sk_socket is non-NULL. The setsockopt
callers (bindx, connectx, set_primary, sendmsg connect) hold a file
reference and are not affected.
Both selinux_socket_bind() and selinux_socket_connect_helper()
immediately resolve sock->sk, never using the struct socket * for
anything else. Refactor the inner logic into helpers that take a
struct sock * directly so that selinux_sctp_bind_connect() never needs
to touch sk->sk_socket at all.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fcaf133a8fd88b69f32ebaecad93fd302da828fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37d642b37ccdc31e1947c2ebc8dc38f03d4a0cebhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56acfeb10019e200ab6787d01f8d7cbe0f01526fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d4d93f9bfbc997ffbb03cd6107e8f6979dbb9b4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4bc2fb8536488b37680c0b66c59434a4b7f8c2fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc8bd47b35eca82393cbad08b1cc86f02e034439https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d61a80b17254be7230bc5544f8e62ddf21ab38e2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4f3b8db1b0c5e9f6374b8996d9e1888d1042b55