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 net/phonet/socket.c:213! RIP: 0010:pn_socket_autobind net/phonet/socket.c:213 [inline] RIP: 0010:pn_socket_sendmsg+0x240/0x250 net/phonet/socket.c:421 Call Trace: sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x112/0x150 net/socket.c:797 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:812 [inline] __sys_sendto+0x402/0x590 net/socket.c:2280 ... pn_socket_autobind() calls pn_socket_bind() with port 0 and, on -EINVAL, assumes the socket was already bound and asserts that the port is non-zero: err = pn_socket_bind(sock, ..., sizeof(struct sockaddr_pn)); if (err != -EINVAL) return err; BUG_ON(!pn_port(pn_sk(sock->sk)->sobject)); return 0; /* socket was already bound */ However pn_socket_bind() also returns -EINVAL when sk->sk_state is not TCP_CLOSE, even when the socket has never been bound and pn_port() is still 0. In that case the BUG_ON() fires and panics the kernel from a user-triggerable path. Treat the "bind returned -EINVAL but pn_port() is still 0" case as a regular error and propagate -EINVAL to the caller instead of crashing. Existing callers already translate a non-zero return from pn_socket_autobind() into -ENOBUFS/-EAGAIN, so returning -EINVAL here only changes behaviour from panic to a normal errno.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b0c911bcdbd982f7748d11c0b39ec5808eae2de Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6db58ee730bf434d1afca91b91826e26688856ed Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 2
- References+2 references (now 5)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:19
- First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 11:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/363c7fcac553dc2aa12fc90c6e5e6eba87500269
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4255c8f756b78d07800baf3320bdbdc130c54193
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5459933a799aaf642cbeb35fdf7e78c59bf2fb9b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b0c911bcdbd982f7748d11c0b39ec5808eae2de Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6db58ee730bf434d1afca91b91826e26688856ed Patch