{"cve":"CVE-2026-53292","nvd":{"published":"2026-06-26T20:17:22.090","modified":"2026-10-21T13:19:14.310","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind\n\nsyzbot reported a kernel BUG triggered from pn_socket_sendmsg() via\npn_socket_autobind():\n\n  kernel BUG at net/phonet/socket.c:213!\n  RIP: 0010:pn_socket_autobind net/phonet/socket.c:213 [inline]\n  RIP: 0010:pn_socket_sendmsg+0x240/0x250 net/phonet/socket.c:421\n  Call Trace:\n   sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x112/0x150 net/socket.c:797\n   __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:812 [inline]\n   __sys_sendto+0x402/0x590 net/socket.c:2280\n   ...\n\npn_socket_autobind() calls pn_socket_bind() with port 0 and, on\n-EINVAL, assumes the socket was already bound and asserts that the\nport is non-zero:\n\n  err = pn_socket_bind(sock, ..., sizeof(struct sockaddr_pn));\n  if (err != -EINVAL)\n          return err;\n  BUG_ON(!pn_port(pn_sk(sock->sk)->sobject));\n  return 0; /* socket was already bound */\n\nHowever pn_socket_bind() also returns -EINVAL when sk->sk_state is not\nTCP_CLOSE, even when the socket has never been bound and pn_port() is\nstill 0.  In that case the BUG_ON() fires and panics the kernel from a\nuser-triggerable path.\n\nTreat the \"bind returned -EINVAL but pn_port() is still 0\" case as a\nregular error and propagate -EINVAL to the caller instead of crashing.\nExisting callers already translate a non-zero return from\npn_socket_autobind() into -ENOBUFS/-EAGAIN, so returning -EINVAL here\nonly changes behaviour from panic to a normal errno.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-617"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/363c7fcac553dc2aa12fc90c6e5e6eba87500269","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4255c8f756b78d07800baf3320bdbdc130c54193","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5459933a799aaf642cbeb35fdf7e78c59bf2fb9b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b0c911bcdbd982f7748d11c0b39ec5808eae2de","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6db58ee730bf434d1afca91b91826e26688856ed"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-22T16:41:11.231219466+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-53292","score":0.00162,"percentile":0.05308,"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."]}