CVE-2026-23460

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect syzkaller reported a bug [1], and the reproducer is available at [2]. ROSE sockets use four sk->sk_state values: TCP_CLOSE, TCP_LISTEN, TCP_SYN_SENT, and TCP_ESTABLISHED. rose_connect() already rejects calls for TCP_ESTABLISHED (-EISCONN) and TCP_CLOSE with SS_CONNECTING (-ECONNREFUSED), but lacks a check for TCP_SYN_SENT. When rose_connect() is called a second time while the first connection attempt is still in progress (TCP_SYN_SENT), it overwrites rose->neighbour via rose_get_neigh(). If that returns NULL, the socket is left with rose->state == ROSE_STATE_1 but rose->neighbour == NULL. When the socket is subsequently closed, rose_release() sees ROSE_STATE_1 and calls rose_write_internal() -> rose_transmit_link(skb, NULL), causing a NULL pointer dereference. Per connect(2), a second connect() while a connection is already in progress should return -EALREADY. Add this missing check for TCP_SYN_SENT to complete the state validation in rose_connect(). [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d00f90e0af54102fb271 [2] https://gist.github.com/mrpre/9e6779e0d13e2c66779b1653fef80516

• CWE-476

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c3e8bff808f17ad37a51d8e719eed22c7863120Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c9fb70a206a8734e10468ecc24d57c7596cf64ePatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/508f49ccbe0329641bb681f7d0052bb4e5943252Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a12254050e3050f1011cd24f3b880a6882d0139dPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a753844d2a8136f090123c8fb1ff6c7f6ee7c2b3Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2ab74c12932e52cfa1e7e4582d42b0c8bec96c7Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c85fe6580e86947ca07907ebf4363a73c156fda7Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1f0a18c9564cdb16523c802e2c6fe5874e3d944Patch

Published

Apr 3, 2026

Last Modified

Jul 24, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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