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    "dataVersion": "5.2",
    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2026-98801",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.370Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-10-18T15:48:47.171Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:25:54.691Z"
    },
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: restrict SO_RESERVE_MEM to TCP sockets and cap max value\n\nCommit 2bb2f5fb21b0 (\"net: add new socket option SO_RESERVE_MEM\") and\ncommit d00c8ee31729 (\"net: fix possible NULL deref in sock_reserve_memory\")\nonly checked sk_has_account(sk), which is true for both TCP and UDP\nsockets.\n\nHowever, SO_RESERVE_MEM and sk_unused_reserved_mem() are currently only\nsupported by TCP:\n- On UDP sockets, sk->sk_forward_alloc is protected by\n  sk->sk_receive_queue.lock, whereas sock_reserve_memory() and\n  sock_release_reserved_memory() only acquire lock_sock(sk). Concurrent\n  UDP packet reception/release and setsockopt(SO_RESERVE_MEM) corrupt\n  sk_forward_alloc and memcg accounting.\n- udp_rmem_release() reclaims excess sk_forward_alloc without\n  accounting for sk_unused_reserved_mem(sk).\n\nRestrict sock_reserve_memory() to TCP sockets (sk_is_tcp(sk)) for now.\nSupporting SO_RESERVE_MEM for UDP (acquiring sk_receive_queue.lock and\nhonoring sk_unused_reserved_mem() in udp_rmem_release()) can be done in\na future net-next series if needed.\n\nIn addition, reject val > SZ_1G with -EINVAL in\nsk_setsockopt(SO_RESERVE_MEM). Without an upper bound, values near\nINT_MAX cause sk_mem_pages(delta) and (pages << PAGE_SHIFT) to overflow\n32-bit signed int, corrupting sk->sk_forward_alloc and\nsk->sk_reserved_mem. Using a page-aligned cap (SZ_1G) ensures that the\npage-rounded sk->sk_reserved_mem reported by getsockopt(SO_RESERVE_MEM)\ncan always be passed back to setsockopt(SO_RESERVE_MEM)."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37e02c42a00be692c06343e11779aadc45f45971"
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