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CVE-2026-43198

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CVE-2026-43198

Published: May 6, 2026

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.8

CRITICAL

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() Code in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() after the call to tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() is done too late. After tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock(), the child socket is already visible from TCP ehash table and other cpus might use it. Since newinet->pinet6 is still pointing to the listener ipv6_pinfo bad things can happen as syzbot found. Move the problematic code in tcp_v6_mapped_child_init() and call this new helper from tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() before the ehash insertion. This allows the removal of one tcp_sync_mss(), since tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() will call it with the correct context.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < fe89b2f05b854847784f91127319172945c1fadd
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 7178e2a8027423b2af17ab95df73a749a5b72e5b
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 858d2a4f67ff69e645a43487ef7ea7f28f06deae

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.12
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.12
unaffected
6.18.16 - <= 6.18.*
unaffected
6.19.6 - <= 6.19.*
unaffected
7.0 - <= *

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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