{"id":"CVE-2026-53292","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-53292","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:10:33.993Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind syzbot reported a kernel BUG triggered from pn_socket_sendmsg() via pn_socket_autobind(): kernel BUG at…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind\n\nsyzbot reported a kernel BUG triggered from pn_socket_sendmsg() via\npn_socket_autobind():\n\n  kernel BUG at net/phonet/socket.c:213!\n  RIP: 0010:pn_socket_autobind net/phonet/socket.c:213 [inline]\n  RIP: 0010:pn_socket_sendmsg+0x240/0x250 net/phonet/socket.c:421\n  Call Trace:\n   sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x112/0x150 net/socket.c:797\n   __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:812 [inline]\n   __sys_sendto+0x402/0x590 net/socket.c:2280\n   ...\n\npn_socket_autobind() calls pn_socket_bind() with port 0 and, on\n-EINVAL, assumes the socket was already bound and asserts that the\nport is non-zero:\n\n  err = pn_socket_bind(sock, ..., sizeof(struct sockaddr_pn));\n  if (err != -EINVAL)\n          return err;\n  BUG_ON(!pn_port(pn_sk(sock->sk)->sobject));\n  return 0; /* socket was already bound */\n\nHowever pn_socket_bind() also returns -EINVAL when sk->sk_state is not\nTCP_CLOSE, even when the socket has never been bound and pn_port() is\nstill 0.  In that case the BUG_ON() fires and panics the kernel from a\nuser-triggerable path.\n\nTreat the \"bind returned -EINVAL but pn_port() is still 0\" case as a\nregular error and propagate -EINVAL to the caller instead of crashing.\nExisting callers already translate a non-zero return from\npn_socket_autobind() into -ENOBUFS/-EAGAIN, so returning -EINVAL here\nonly changes behaviour from panic to a normal errno.","published":"2026-06-26T20:17:22.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-21T13:19:14.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-617"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00162,"percentile":0.05316,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/363c7fcac553dc2aa12fc90c6e5e6eba87500269","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4255c8f756b78d07800baf3320bdbdc130c54193","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5459933a799aaf642cbeb35fdf7e78c59bf2fb9b","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b0c911bcdbd982f7748d11c0b39ec5808eae2de","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6db58ee730bf434d1afca91b91826e26688856ed","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53292","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}