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CVE-2026-22983

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: do not write to msg_get_inq in callee NULL pointer dereference fix. msg_get_inq is an input field from caller to callee. Don't set it in the callee, as the caller may not clear it on struct reuse. This is a kernel-internal variant of msghdr only, and the only user does reinitialize the field. So this is not critical for that reason. But it is more robust to avoid the write, and slightly simpler code. And it fixes a bug,
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:a51f796000808d5b9ead176de2d3f740016ceeb620e7b15841e26caf81b6239f
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4f1b7b281ced522e3cf2734be4a89868f74bfa6395e12dc8b89b6aadb2118a62 · sha256:5d91bacd12b45564… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["net/ipv4/tcp.c","net/unix/af_unix.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"ffa2be496ef65055b28b39c6bd9a7d66943ee89a","status":"affected","version":"089e50f29eeec8eef6ae1450fc88138d719291cb","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"7d11e047eda5f98514ae62507065ac961981c025","status":"affected","version":"4d1442979e4a53b9457ce1e373e187e1511ff688","versionType":"git"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4f1b7b281ced522e3cf2734be4a89868f74bfa6395e12dc8b89b6aadb2118a62 · sha256:5d91bacd12b45564… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["net/ipv4/tcp.c","net/unix/af_unix.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"6.18.6","status":"affected","version":"6.18.4","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4f1b7b281ced522e3cf2734be4a89868f74bfa6395e12dc8b89b6aadb2118a62 · sha256:5d91bacd12b45564… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["net/ipv4/tcp.c","net/unix/af_unix.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"ffa2be496ef65055b28b39c6bd9a7d66943ee89a","status":"affected","version":"089e50f29eeec8eef6ae1450fc88138d719291cb","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"7d11e047eda5f98514ae62507065ac961981c025","status":"affected","version":"4d1442979e4a53b9457ce1e373e187e1511ff688","versionType":"git"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4f1b7b281ced522e3cf2734be4a89868f74bfa6395e12dc8b89b6aadb2118a62 · sha256:5d91bacd12b45564… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Source references

2 source assertions
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d11e047eda5f98514ae62507065ac961981c025"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4f1b7b281ced522e3cf2734be4a89868f74bfa6395e12dc8b89b6aadb2118a62 · sha256:5d91bacd12b45564… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffa2be496ef65055b28b39c6bd9a7d66943ee89a"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4f1b7b281ced522e3cf2734be4a89868f74bfa6395e12dc8b89b6aadb2118a62 · sha256:5d91bacd12b45564… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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