Answer in brief
CVE-2026-98581 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in nfc: llcp: Fix list corruption / refcount desync in nfc_llcp_recv_dm(). The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f <dd2d24add86b3b63cd87cf2feff98ae119ba19a6 || >=a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f <812731dd8511f5768f4ff279b3c18d85cd21da4b || >=a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f <dba1d9c7134afcb4b1bfad8c1b1b3f0ab5189b08 || >=a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f <c1e9ed52a6697354366dddf190fbacee8ed2f7c5 || >=a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f <7fb2c0eeb79bfad64065f539a453138abd0edda6 || >=a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f <b94cf09720543cc34256c7aa88f8059cbe7c0419 || >=a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f <320a2ff49bdce3f9a437b9a9ff341ff27d3bdbf1 || >=a69f32af86e389dd232b1bb2269e202c1bfcc60f <bf1460acdf8cf5a07c819f59785d40f20d113099 | dd2d24add86b3b63cd87cf2feff98ae119ba19a6, 812731dd8511f5768f4ff279b3c18d85cd21da4b, dba1d9c7134afcb4b1bfad8c1b1b3f0ab5189b08, c1e9ed52a6697354366dddf190fbacee8ed2f7c5, 7fb2c0eeb79bfad64065f539a453138abd0edda6, b94cf09720543cc34256c7aa88f8059cbe7c0419, 320a2ff49bdce3f9a437b9a9ff341ff27d3bdbf1, bf1460acdf8cf5a07c819f59785d40f20d113099 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 3.6 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Oct 18, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 19, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Oct 18, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: llcp: Fix list corruption / refcount desync in nfc_llcp_recv_dm() nfc_llcp_recv_dm() handles DM(NOBOUND)/DM(REJ) for a socket that is still linked on local->connecting_sockets: it looks the socket up with nfc_llcp_connecting_sock_get(), sets sk->sk_state = LLCP_CLOSED and returns, without taking the socket lock and without unlinking the socket from the connecting_sockets list. llcp_sock_release() selects the list to unlink from by sk_state: a socket in LLCP_CONNECTING is unlinked from connecting_sockets, otherwise from the sockets list. Because recv_dm left the socket physically on connecting_sockets but in the LLCP_CLOSED state, release() takes the else branch and calls nfc_llcp_sock_unlink(&local->sockets, sk). That runs sk_del_node_init() while holding sockets.lock, i.e. it removes the socket from the connecting_sockets hlist under the wrong lock. A concurrent connect() linking another socket onto connecting_sockets under connecting_sockets.lock then mutates the same hlist unserialized, which corrupts the list and desyncs the sk_add_node()/sk_del_node_init() sock_hold()/__sock_put() pairing. An unprivileged local process holding LLCP sockets, with the DM supplied by the remote peer over an established LLCP link, can drive this to leak kernel sockets without bound (the mis-decrement goes through the non-freeing __sock_put() path, so the object is never released), leading to memory exhaustion / DoS. This is the same class of bug that was fixed in the sibling handler nfc_llcp_recv_cc() by commit b493ea2765cc ("nfc: llcp: Fix use-after-free race in nfc_llcp_recv_cc()"); recv_dm did not receive the equivalent fix. Fix it the same way: take lock_sock(), re-check that the socket is still hashed (release() may have won the race), and for the NOBOUND/REJ case unlink it from connecting_sockets before moving it to LLCP_CLOSED. The unlink drops the connecting_sockets membership reference via sk_del_node_init(), leaving the socket unhashed, so the later nfc_llcp_sock_unlink() in llcp_sock_release() becomes a no-op and no double put occurs.
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