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CVE-2026-80738

Updated on 03 Sep 2026

Severity

7.3 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.3
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

bpf: Check sk_state before sk_protocol in bpf_tcp_*_syncookie

bpf_tcp_gen_syncookie and bpf_tcp_check_syncookie accept a socket pointer ‘sk’ with argument type ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID_SOCK_COMMON. However, they access sk->sk_protocol without validating whether ‘sk’ represents a full socket.

Fix this issue by checking sk->sk_state != TCP_LISTEN before inspecting sk->sk_protocol in both bpf_tcp_gen_syncookie and bpf_tcp_check_syncookie. Since mini-sockets are never in the TCP_LISTEN state, the condition short-circuits and prevents dereferencing fullsock-specific fields.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux @ 5.10.259 (+6 more)

Fixes