{"cve":"CVE-2026-52947","nvd":{"published":"2026-06-24T17:17:04.760","modified":"2026-10-19T20:18:49.507","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: qrtr: fix refcount saturation and potential UAF in qrtr_port_remove\n\nIn qrtr_port_remove(), the socket reference count is decremented via\n__sock_put() before the port is removed from the qrtr_ports XArray and\nbefore the RCU grace period elapses.\n\nThis breaks the fundamental RCU update paradigm. It exposes a race\nwindow where a concurrent RCU reader (such as qrtr_reset_ports() or\nqrtr_port_lookup()) can obtain a pointer to the socket from the XArray,\nand attempt to call sock_hold() on a socket whose reference count has\nalready dropped to zero.\n\nThis exact race condition was hit during syzkaller fuzzing, leading to\nthe following refcount saturation warning and a potential Use-After-Free:\n\n  refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.\n  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1273 at lib/refcount.c:22 refcount_warn_saturate+0xae/0x1d0\n  Modules linked in: qrtr(+) bochs drm_shmem_helper ...\n  Call Trace:\n   <TASK>\n   qrtr_reset_ports net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:768 [inline] [qrtr]\n   __qrtr_bind.isra.0+0x48b/0x570 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:805 [qrtr]\n   qrtr_bind+0x17d/0x210 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:901 [qrtr]\n   kernel_bind+0xe4/0x120 net/socket.c:3592\n   qrtr_ns_init+0x1a6/0x380 net/qrtr/ns.c:715 [qrtr]\n   qrtr_proto_init+0x3b/0xff0 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:169 [qrtr]\n   do_one_initcall+0xf5/0x5e0 init/main.c:1283\n   ...\n   </TASK>\n\nFix this by deferring the reference count decrement until after the\nxa_erase() and the synchronize_rcu() complete.\n\n(Note: The v1 of this patch incorrectly replaced __sock_put() with\nsock_put(). As Simon Horman pointed out, the callers of qrtr_port_remove()\nstill hold a reference to the socket, so freeing the socket memory here\nwould lead to a subsequent UAF in the caller. Thus, the __sock_put() is\nkept, but only repositioned to close the RCU race.)","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-416","CWE-362"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03bfa95e452e2b6ccd76a332060ae4feaf5ad84d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2047c2aa0963bb2872fd722300a15bcb441a4c00","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2aa4c12723fe432e623462a3be42a197a128722b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b20ec8f31e8a6a6782243f473b0abd3463621df","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/474293d90880622fde9d2430fb0165767090f7b3"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-21T03:43:09.190223697+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-52947","score":0.00106,"percentile":0.01113,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}