CVE-2026-74257

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sockmap: Fix use-after-free in udp_bpf_recvmsg()

syzbot reported use-after-free of struct sk_msg in sk_msg_recvmsg(). [0]

sk_msg_recvmsg() peeks sk_msg from psock->ingress_msg under a lock,

but its processing is lockless.

Thus, sk_msg_recvmsg() must be serialised by callers, otherwise

multiple threads could touch the same sk_msg.

For example, TCP uses lock_sock(), and AF_UNIX uses unix_sk(sk)->iolock.

Initially, udp_bpf_recvmsg() had used lock_sock(), but the cited

commit removed it.

Let's serialise sk_msg_recvmsg() with lock_sock() in udp_bpf_recvmsg().

Note that holding spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_receive_queue.lock) is not

an option due to copy_page_to_iter() in sk_msg_recvmsg().

[0]:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_msg_recvmsg+0xb54/0xc30 net/core/skmsg.c:428

Read of size 4 at addr ffff88814cdcf000 by task syz.0.24/6020

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6020 Comm: syz.0.24 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)

Hardware

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

References