CVE-2026-64048 (GCVE-0-2026-64048)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 15:39 – Updated: 2026-10-19 20:28
VLAI
Title
net/smc: reject CHID-0 ACCEPT that matches an empty ism_dev slot
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: reject CHID-0 ACCEPT that matches an empty ism_dev slot On the SMC-D client, slot 0 of ini->ism_dev[]/ini->ism_chid[] is reserved for an SMC-Dv1 device. smc_find_ism_v2_device_clnt() populates V2 entries starting at index 1, so when no V1 device is selected slot 0 is left in its kzalloc()'ed state with ism_dev[0] == NULL and ism_chid[0] == 0. smc_v2_determine_accepted_chid() then matches the peer's CHID against the array starting from index 0 using the CHID alone. A malicious peer replying to a SMC-Dv2-only proposal with d1.chid == 0 matches the empty slot, ini->ism_selected becomes 0, and the subsequent ism_dev[0]->lgr_lock dereference in smc_conn_create() faults at offsetof(struct smcd_dev, lgr_lock) == 0x68: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x79/0xe0 Write of size 4 at addr 0000000000000068 by task exploit/144 Call Trace: _raw_spin_lock_bh smc_conn_create (net/smc/smc_core.c:1997) __smc_connect (net/smc/af_smc.c:1447) smc_connect (net/smc/af_smc.c:1720) __sys_connect __x64_sys_connect do_syscall_64 Require ism_dev[i] to be non-NULL before accepting a CHID match.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-16 15:35 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6843 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a7c9c5f4af7f6098da68705fc5d86565d0728ef7 , < 903f7688ffeb9b323d70652c01f554bd4ba2a3d6 (git)
Affected: a7c9c5f4af7f6098da68705fc5d86565d0728ef7 , < dd2f9dd83c68abd7ba7ded7075290b016cb7ecd0 (git)
Affected: a7c9c5f4af7f6098da68705fc5d86565d0728ef7 , < 6927cacf2b10d4fa80c1a2d407512ef9397c59c6 (git)
Affected: a7c9c5f4af7f6098da68705fc5d86565d0728ef7 , < d38ba387244e5c5f7db3e11ea98bc2c7beccb0c0 (git)
Affected: a7c9c5f4af7f6098da68705fc5d86565d0728ef7 , < 53eb7bd09aace72fa17510d80e0caf5ca058c231 (git)
Affected: a7c9c5f4af7f6098da68705fc5d86565d0728ef7 , < afa9036b8c9963947b487c36e332df6a42c96fcb (git)
Affected: a7c9c5f4af7f6098da68705fc5d86565d0728ef7 , < 65edb3b0822cfe5041be8fbabebd57e2e5ad9f4e (git)
Affected: a7c9c5f4af7f6098da68705fc5d86565d0728ef7 , < 277740023def559a4a2ddc3e8e784ee37a0f16a9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.266 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.217 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.142 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.92 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.34 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.11 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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