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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genetlink: fix genl_bind() invoking bind() after -EPERM Per family bind/unbind callbacks were introduced to allow families to track multicast group consumer presence, e.g. to start or stop producing events depending on listeners. However, in genl_bind() the bind() callback was invoked even if capability checks failed and ret was set to -EPERM. This means that callbacks could run on behalf of unauthorized callers while the syscall still returned failure to user space. Fix this by only invoking bind() after "if (ret) break;" check i.e. after permission checks have succeeded.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-10-01 | Updated 2025-10-01 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e before 98c9d884047a3051c203708914a874dece3cbe54
affected

3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e before 8858c1e9405906c09589d7c336f04058ea198207
affected

3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e before 1dbfb0363224f6da56f6655d596dc5097308d6f5
affected

Default status
affected

6.9
affected

Any version before 6.9
unaffected

6.12.48
unaffected

6.16.8
unaffected

6.17
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/98c9d884047a3051c203708914a874dece3cbe54

git.kernel.org/...c/8858c1e9405906c09589d7c336f04058ea198207

git.kernel.org/...c/1dbfb0363224f6da56f6655d596dc5097308d6f5

cve.org (CVE-2025-39926)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-39926)

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