# CVE-2026-68399: bpf: Fix UAF in sock clone early bailouts

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.57, 7.1.6
- Published: 2026-08-10 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.2
- Kernel (Linux): from 5.2.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.114; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.57; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.1.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix UAF in sock clone early bailouts Similar to recent commit 9b51a6155d14 ("bpf,fork: wipe ->bpf_storage before bailouts that access it"), sk_clone() performs an initial shallow copy of the socket field ->sk_bpf_storage via sock_copy() for the cloned socket newsk. If sk_clone() bails out early (e.g. if sk_filter_charge() fails) prior to calling bpf_sk_storage_clone(), newsk->sk_bpf_storage still points to the parent socket's BPF local storage. When newsk is subsequently freed via sk_free(), the deallocation path (__sk_destruct() -> bpf_sk_storage_free()) destroys the parent socket's BPF local storage, leading to a use-after-free (UAF) on the parent socket. Fix this by resetting newsk->sk_bpf_storage to NULL immediately after sock_copy() in sk_clone(), and remove the now redundant initialization from bpf_sk_storage_clone().

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac855efc6bb216b262b672af68219e5b731f42a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6814814b3bdd6ecb6bc1fc53ba4e827e0185f01
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24139461545e44442df9b80deace26b2eb3e103d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01f8a354497ba739f81b691b3702bc4c46500a4d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14b49b5ab29979552c219a09e569b424fbbf4a6e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cbd0c4cebe4c9f678d15e6b9ba975e1155a107f

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