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Go to dashboardA race between socket release and accept() in the Linux kernel's NFC LLCP code can unlink and free the same child socket twice. The result is a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference in the kernel, which can crash the machine or possibly be turned into code execution.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Systems running a Linux kernel with NFC support enabled and the LLCP protocol in use are affected, which mainly means machines with NFC hardware or NFC drivers loaded. Servers, containers and cloud VMs without NFC support typically do not load the affected code, and the sources do not say whether unprivileged users can reach it.
No product ranges from the sources yet.
uname -r and compare it to the fixed versions in the kernel's stable branch, which the sources do not list.lsmod | grep nfc or whether nfc is built in.modprobe -r nfc and add install nfc /bin/false to a modprobe.d file.Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: llcp: Fix race condition in accept_queue lifecycle
In nfc_llcp_socket_release(), sockets and listener accept queues are walked under the local sockets rwlock and bh_lock_sock(). However, bh_lock_sock() does not synchronise against process-context lock_sock() held by nfc_llcp_accept_dequeue() during accept(). Because socket_release() does not check sock_owned_by_user(), both paths can concurrently unlink and release the same child socket, resulting in use-after-free or a NULL pointer dereference of child->parent in nfc_llcp_accept_unlink().
Fix this synchronisation race by having nfc_llcp_socket_release() use process-context lock_sock() instead of bh_lock_sock():
Pop sockets from the local sockets list under the write lock using nfc_llcp_sock_list_pop() so lock_sock() can be acquired without holding the rwlock.
Because lock_sock() can sleep, defer the final release of the nfc_llcp_local structure to a workqueue (release_work). This avoids a sleeping-in-atomic bug when the last local reference is dropped from softirq context. Additionally, hold a single device reference on local from registration until final destruction.
In nfc_llcp_local_get(), use kref_get_unless_zero() to prevent resurrecting a local object whose teardown has been scheduled.
In llcp_sock_accept(), verify that the listener socket state is still LLCP_LISTEN after waking from schedule_timeout() to prevent hangs if the listener is closed concurrently.
When unlinking unaccepted child sockets during listener release, unlink them from local->sockets, call sock_orphan(), and drop their initial sk_alloc creation reference via sock_put().
Make nfc_llcp_accept_unlink() idempotent by guarding parent access with a NULL check.
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