CVE-2025-68775

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Duplicate Handshake Cancellation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/handshake: duplicate handshake cancellations leak socket When a handshake request is cancelled it is removed from the handshake_net->hn_requests list, but it is still present in the handshake_rhashtbl until it is destroyed. If a second cancellation request arrives for the same handshake request, then remove_pending() will return false... and assuming HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED isn't set in req->hr_flags, we'll continue processing through the out_true label, where we put another reference on the sock and a refcount underflow occurs. This can happen for example if a handshake times out - particularly if the SUNRPC client sends the AUTH_TLS probe to the server but doesn't follow it up with the ClientHello due to a problem with tlshd. When the timeout is hit on the server, the server will send a FIN, which triggers a cancellation request via xs_reset_transport(). When the timeout is hit on the client, another cancellation request happens via xs_tls_handshake_sync(). Add a test_and_set_bit(HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED) in the pending cancel path so duplicate cancels can be detected.

Scores

EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.3%

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.4.0 - 6.6.120linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.64linux
Linux/Linux < 6.4
Linux/Linux 3b3009ea8abb713b022d94fba95ec270cf6e7eae - 011ae80c49d9bfa5b4336f8bd387cd25c7593663
Linux/Linux 3b3009ea8abb713b022d94fba95ec270cf6e7eae - 15564bd67e2975002f2a8e9defee33e321d3183f
Linux/Linux 3b3009ea8abb713b022d94fba95ec270cf6e7eae - 3c330f1dee3cd92b57e19b9d21dc8ce5970b09be
Linux/Linux 3b3009ea8abb713b022d94fba95ec270cf6e7eae - e1641177e7fb48a0a5a06658d4aab51da6656659
Linux/Linux 6.12.64 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.3 - 6.18.*
... and 3 more
Published Jan 13, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026