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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2026-68294

net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace QRTR keeps its entire port and node state in module-global variables that are not partitioned per network namespace: qrtr_local_nid is a single global node id (always 1) and qrtr_ports is a single global xarray. qrtr_port_lookup() and qrtr_local_enqueue() operate on that global state with no network-namespace check, and qrtr_create() places no restriction on the namespace a socket is created in. As a result an unprivileged process that creates an AF_QIPCRTR socket in a separate network namespace, e.g. via unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNET), can send QRTR datagrams - including control-plane messages such as QRTR_TYPE_NEW_SERVER - to QRTR sockets owned by another namespace, and vice versa. The receiving socket sees such a message as coming from node id 1, indistinguishable from a legitimate local client, breaking the isolation that network namespaces are expected to provide. QRTR is a transport to global hardware endpoints (the modem and other remote processors) and has no per-namespace semantics; its in-kernel name service already creates its socket in init_net only. Confine the socket family to the initial network namespace, as other non-namespace-aware socket families do (see llc_ui_create() and the ieee802154 socket code).

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to < 7814f6a3415cad38aa8d6dfc573df778260d66aaaffected
  • bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to < 2d22b94a154ccb9755dddfff802fe3e2b1adbab5affected
  • bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to < 8d351fe0654a20c9f95a61b05d24ebe6d4be3fbbaffected
  • bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to < 4b95e1f0d6e6342c427cb341ee18a894b146b789affected
  • bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to < f488116df769bdaf89c93371350e49e12133e70faffected
  • bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to < 8150c48fb978e01689f94ed80148f8a7499ae571affected
  • bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to < 659b9b4f194bb56b9903cc95e786ef1d438baa7daffected
  • bdabad3e363d825ddf9679dd431cca0b2c30f881 to < 3b536db8fb32da9e9c62f2bb45e2e319331f0426affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.7affected
  • 0 to < 4.7unaffected
  • 5.10.265 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.216 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.183 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.148 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.101 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.42 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.6 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

References