net/iucv: filter frames in afiucv_hs_rcv() by ingress device
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 10 fixed, 6 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: filter frames in afiucv_hs_rcv() by ingress device afiucv_hs_rcv() selects a socket from iucv_sk_list by matching four 8-byte name fields in the transport header alone. No check is made against the net_device the frame arrived on. This can cause a frame arriving on any netdev to be delivered to an AF_IUCV socket. Three problems follow. First, a frame arriving over HiperSockets can be delivered to a socket bound to the classic z/VM IUCV transport, which has iucv->hs_dev == NULL. iucv_sock_bind() takes the classic path whenever the requested userid matches iucv_userid, even on a guest that also has a HiperSockets device carrying the same identifier. The child socket created by afiucv_hs_callback_syn() for such a match inherits hs_dev = NULL and transport = AF_IUCV_TRANS_HIPER, so the first send() on it returns -ENODEV. The socket delivered to accept() is unusable. Second, a frame arriving on one netdev can be delivered to a socket bound to a different IQD device. Which can lead to - Accept-queue exhaustion (DoS) - Attacker-controlled peer identity in the child socket - Data injection into existing sockets - Fabric noise on the IQD fabric, where bogus replies are sent - killing established connections Third, all AF_IUCV sockets live in init_net, as iucv_sock_alloc() calls sk_alloc(&init_net, ...). But even frames arriving on netdev devices in a namespace can be delivered to an IUCV socket. So a process in an unprivileged user and network namespace holding only the CAP_NET_RAW capability valid within that namespace can send a raw ETH_P_AF_IUCV frame on its own lo device and have it matched against init_net sockets. Fix all three by skipping any socket whose hs_dev does not match the ingress device. A classic z/VM IUCV socket has hs_dev == NULL; the ingress dev is never NULL, so classic sockets are skipped automatically. An unbound HIPER socket also has hs_dev == NULL and is skipped. A bound HIPER socket is only reachable from the exact IQD device it was bound to. Because hs_dev is always a device in init_net (iucv_sock_bind() scans for_each_netdev_rcu(&init_net, ...) exclusively), a frame whose ingress device belongs to another namespace never matches any socket. Note that AF_IUCV over HiperSockets provides no per-connection authentication: no sequence numbers, no TLS, no nonce. The four name fields identifying a connection are exchanged in plaintext on the shared HiperSockets segment (VCHID). Any host on the same HiperSockets segment could spoof any frame type against an existing connection. That is a protocol-level property unchanged by this patch. The fix reduces the attack surface to peers present on the same HiperSockets segment.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.270, 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, 7.2.4, 7.3
Red Hat 4 advisories
- RHSA-2026:89197 Released 2026-10-27 · Red Hat rating CriticalOpenShift Container Platform 4.22.20 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 rhcos-aarch64-4.22.9.8.202610241758-0, rhcos-ppc64le-4.22.9.8.202610241758-0, rhcos-s390x-4.22.9.8.202610241758-0 +1
- RHSA-2026:89083 Released 2026-10-24 · Red Hat rating Importantkernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) bpftool-4.18.0-553.178.1.el8_10, kernel-4.18.0-553.178.1.el8_10, kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.178.1.el8_10 +19
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.178.1.el8_10
- RHSA-2026:89082 Released 2026-10-24 · Red Hat rating Importantkernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8) kernel-rt-4.18.0-553.178.1.rt7.519.el8_10, kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-553.178.1.rt7.519.el8_10, kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-553.178.1.rt7.519.el8_10 +9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8) kernel-rt-4.18.0-553.178.1.rt7.519.el8_10, kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-553.178.1.rt7.519.el8_10, kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-553.178.1.rt7.519.el8_10 +7
Show 1 more Red Hat advisories
- RHSA-2026:83156 Released 2026-10-14 · Red Hat rating Importantkernel security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) kernel-64k-debug-devel-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, kernel-64k-devel-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8 +12
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) kernel-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, kernel-64k-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, kernel-64k-core-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8 +28
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) kernel-tools-libs-devel-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, libperf-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 9) kernel-rt-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, kernel-rt-64k-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, kernel-rt-64k-core-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8 +21
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV (v. 9) kernel-rt-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, kernel-rt-core-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8, kernel-rt-debug-5.14.0-687.58.1.el9_8 +9
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Affected | — |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:83156 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:89083 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:83156 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:89083 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:83156 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:89082 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:89082 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:83156 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:83156 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:89197 |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-81003
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5r93-38xq-57mx
- 2026-10-07 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-07 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-16 Fix available: RHSA-2026:83156 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-16 Fix available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9), Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9), Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) +2 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-26 Fix available: RHSA-2026:89083 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-26 Fix available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8), Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) · Red Hat
- 2026-10-26 Fix available: RHSA-2026:89082 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-26 Fix available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8), Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8) · Red Hat
- 2026-10-28 Fix available: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-29 Fix available: RHSA-2026:89197 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-03 CVSS score changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/639828ad4d374056167391dbaffd13dd5e5e5ddb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92e5c281f1caa287bb58292f2687c9e3ff3aa23e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/712330f8a4293cfd97b0d62b7c7dc01862a16b98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a5af67e7184c6a0e155c317840bd64b37177af4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfac2936b83be00035ae176f8252e1c1e1de9207
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e3763f1ccac3fc395f9af2b87114c023ced8a3f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7f0130a091724e69827ab58e74777a88747e892
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80230a18c164a4b5bbc048fe2768b219ac17bc5a
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Sources
- CVE-2026-81003 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-81003 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5r93-38xq-57mx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-81003 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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