CVE-2025-39926
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genetlink: fix genl_bind() invoking bind() after -EPERM Per family bind/unbind callbacks were introduced to allow families to track multicast group consumer presence, e.g. to start or stop producing events depending on listeners. However, in genl_bind() the bind() callback was invoked even if capability checks failed and ret was set to -EPERM. This means that callbacks could run on behalf of unauthorized callers while the syscall still returned failure to user space. Fix this by only invoking bind() after "if (ret) break;" check i.e. after permission checks have succeeded.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e - < 98c9d884047a3051c203708914a874dece3cbe54affected 3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e - < 8858c1e9405906c09589d7c336f04058ea198207affected 3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e - < 1dbfb0363224f6da56f6655d596dc5097308d6f5 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.9unaffected 0 - < 6.9unaffected 6.12.48 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.16.8 - <= 6.16.*unaffected 6.17 - <= * |
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