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Advisory severityHigh7.0Vendor: MediumRed Hat Linux

High [CVE-2026-52947] fix refcount saturation and potential UAF in qrtr_port_remove

This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-52947 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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CVE-2026-52947
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxLinux Kernel
Open source advisory

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qrtr: fix refcount saturation and potential UAF in qrtr_port_remove In qrtr_port_remove(), the socket reference count is decremented via __sock_put() before the port is removed from the qrtr_ports XArray and before the RCU grace period elapses.

This breaks the fundamental RCU update paradigm. It exposes a race window where a concurrent RCU reader (such as qrtr_reset_ports() or qrtr_port_lookup()) can obtain a pointer to the socket from the XArray, and attempt to call sock_hold() on a socket whose reference count has already dropped to zero.

This exact race condition was hit during syzkaller fuzzing, leading to the following refcount saturation warning and a potential Use-After-Free: refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory. WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1273 at lib/refcount.c:22 refcount_warn_saturate+0xae/0x1d0 Modules linked in: qrtr(+) bochs drm_shmem_helper...

Call Trace: qrtr_reset_ports net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:768 [inline] [qrtr] __qrtr_bind.isra.0+0x48b/0x570 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:805 [qrtr] qrtr_bind+0x17d/0x210 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:901 [qrtr] kernel_bind+0xe4/0x120 net/socket.c:3592 qrtr_ns_init+0x1a6/0x380 net/qrtr/ns.c:715 [qrtr] qrtr_proto_init+0x3b/0xff0 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:169 [qrtr] do_one_initcall+0xf5/0x5e0 init/main.c:1283...

Is CVE-2026-52947 exploited?

No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2026-52947 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and this advisory does not report exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.

How do I fix CVE-2026-52947?

Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:

  • kernel-0:6.12.0-211.53.1.el10_2
  • kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.163.1.rt7.504.el8_10
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.163.1.el8_10
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-687.47.1.el9_8
  • RHSA-2026:65334
  • RHSA-2026:67469
  • RHSA-2026:67468
  • RHSA-2026:67150

Confirm against the vendor advisory before you patch.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • kernel-0:6.12.0-211.53.1.el10_2
  • kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.163.1.rt7.504.el8_10
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.163.1.el8_10
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-687.47.1.el9_8
  • RHSA-2026:65334
  • RHSA-2026:67469
  • RHSA-2026:67468
  • RHSA-2026:67150

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: kernel-0:6.12.0-211.53.1.el10_2, kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.163.1.rt7.504.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-553.163.1.el8_10, kernel-0:5.14.0-687.47.1.el9_8, RHSA-2026:65334, RHSA-2026:67469. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here. Review it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source

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