---
id: CVE-2026-53005
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  af_unix: Drop all SCM attributes for SOCKMAP.

  SOCKMAP can hide inflight fd from AF_UNIX GC.

  When a socket in SOCKMAP receives skb with inflight fd,
  sk_psock_verdict_d…
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  af_unix: Drop all SCM attributes for SOCKMAP.

  SOCKMAP can hide inflight fd from AF_UNIX GC.

  When a socket in SOCKMAP receives skb with inflight fd,
  sk_psock_verdict_d…
severity: high
cvss: 7.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
published: '2026-06-24'
updated: '2026-07-10'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53005'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965dc93481d1b80d341bdd16c27b16fe197175ee'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b34a1d83c74a124c968b5adb25c809db3e2eb86a'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00134
epssPercentile: 0.03292
ingestedAt: '2026-07-11T17:13:40.284Z'
---

## Overview

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

af_unix: Drop all SCM attributes for SOCKMAP.

SOCKMAP can hide inflight fd from AF_UNIX GC.

When a socket in SOCKMAP receives skb with inflight fd,
sk_psock_verdict_data_ready() looks up the mapped socket and
enqueue skb to its psock->ingress_skb.

Since neither the old nor the new GC can inspect the psock
queue, the hidden skb leaks the inflight sockets.  Note that
this cannot be detected via kmemleak because inflight sockets
are linked to a global list.

In addition, SOCKMAP redirect breaks the Tarjan-based GC's
assumption that unix_edge.successor is always alive, which
is no longer true once skb is redirected, resulting in
use-after-free below. [0]

Moreover, SOCKMAP does not call scm_stat_del() properly,
so unix_show_fdinfo() could report an incorrect fd count.

sk_msg_recvmsg() does not support any SCM attributes in the
first place.

Let's drop all SCM attributes before passing skb to the
SOCKMAP layer.

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in unix_del_edges (net/unix/garbage.c:118 net/unix/garbage.c:181 net/unix/garbage.c:251)
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888125362670 by task kworker/56:1/496

CPU: 56 UID: 0 PID: 496 Comm: kworker/56:1 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc7-00263-gb9d8b856689d #3 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events sk_psock_backlog
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
 print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379)
 kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597)
 unix_del_edges (net/unix/garbage.c:118 net/unix/garbage.c:181 net/unix/garbage.c:251)
 unix_destroy_fpl (net/unix/garbage.c:317)
 unix_destruct_scm (./include/net/scm.h:80 ./include/net/scm.h:86 net/unix/af_unix.c:1976)
 sk_psock_backlog (./include/linux/skbuff.h:?)
 process_scheduled_works (kernel/workqueue.c:?)
 worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:?)
 kthread (kernel/kthread.c:438)
 ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164)
 ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:258)
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 955:
 kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:58 mm/kasan/common.c:78)
 __kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:369)
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof (mm/slub.c:4539)
 sk_prot_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2240)
 sk_alloc (net/core/sock.c:2301)
 unix_create1 (net/unix/af_unix.c:1099)
 unix_create (net/unix/af_unix.c:1169)
 __sock_create (net/socket.c:1606)
 __sys_socketpair (net/socket.c:1811)
 __x64_sys_socketpair (net/socket.c:1863 net/socket.c:1860 net/socket.c:1860)
 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:?)
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)

Freed by task 496:
 kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:58 mm/kasan/common.c:78)
 kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:587)
 __kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:287)
 kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:6165)
 __sk_destruct (net/core/sock.c:2282 net/core/sock.c:2384)
 sk_psock_destroy (./include/net/sock.h:?)
 process_scheduled_works (kernel/workqueue.c:?)
 worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:?)
 kthread (kernel/kthread.c:438)
 ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164)
 ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:258)

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.