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HIGH Introduced in 3.2

net/iucv IngressDevice Bypass

CVE-2026-81003

CVSS 8.1 / 10.0 NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

KernelScan AI9.6CRITICAL

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: filter frames in afiucv_hs_rcv() by ingress device afiucv_hs_rcv() selects a socket from iucv_sk_list by matching four 8-byte name fields in the transport header alone. No check is made against the net_device the frame arrived on. This can cause a frame arriving on any netdev to be delivered to an AF_IUCV socket. Three problems follow. First, a frame arriving over HiperSockets can be delivered to a socket bound to the classic z/VM IUCV transport, which has iucv->hs_dev == NULL. iucv_sock_bind() takes the classic path whenever the requested userid matches iucv_userid, even on a guest that also has a HiperSockets device carrying the same identifier. The child socket created by afiucv_hs_callback_syn() for such a match inherits hs_dev = NULL and transport = AF_IUCV_TRANS_HIPER, so the first send() on it returns -ENODEV. The socket delivered to accept() is unusable. Second, a frame arriving on one netdev can be delivered to a socket bound to a different IQD device. Which can lead to - Accept-queue exhaustion (DoS) - Attacker-controlled peer identity in the child socket - Data injection into existing sockets - Fabric noise on the IQD fabric, where bogus replies are sent - killing established connections Third, all AF_IUCV sockets live in init_net, as iucv_sock_alloc() calls sk_alloc(&init_net, ...). But even frames arriving on netdev devices in a namespace can be delivered to an IUCV socket. So a process in an unprivileged user and network namespace holding only the CAP_NET_RAW capability valid within that namespace can send a raw ETH_P_AF_IUCV frame on its own lo device and have it matched against init_net sockets. Fix all three by skipping any socket whose hs_dev does not match the ingress device. A classic z/VM IUCV socket has hs_dev == NULL; the ingress dev is never NULL, so classic sockets are skipped automatically. An unbound HIPER socket also has hs_dev == NULL and is skipped. A bound HIPER socket is only reachable from the exact IQD device it was bound to. Because hs_dev is always a device in init_net (iucv_sock_bind() scans for_each_netdev_rcu(&init_net, ...) exclusively), a frame whose ingress device belongs to another namespace never matches any socket. Note that AF_IUCV over HiperSockets provides no per-connection authentication: no sequence numbers, no TLS, no nonce. The four name fields identifying a connection are exchanged in plaintext on the shared HiperSockets segment (VCHID). Any host on the same HiperSockets segment could spoof any frame type against an existing connection. That is a protocol-level property unchanged by this patch. The fix reduces the attack surface to peers present on the same HiperSockets segment.

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Engine v0.6.0

Risk summary

An unprivileged local process in a user and network namespace can craft raw AF_IUCV frames on its own loopback device and have them matched against sockets in the init namespace, enabling data injection, connection disruption, peer identity spoofing, and accept-queue exhaustion. The bug is specific to s390 systems with AF_IUCV HiperSockets transport support. Any host on the same HiperSockets fabric segment can also spoof frames against existing connections.

Affectednet/iucv/af_iucv.c (AF_IUCV / HiperSockets transport)

Vulnerability analysis

The AF_IUCV HiperSockets receive path delivers incoming frames to sockets based only on connection names in the packet header, without checking which network device the frame arrived on. Because all AF_IUCV sockets belong to the host's initial network namespace while frames can arrive on devices in any namespace, a process inside an unprivileged container can craft a raw frame on its own loopback device and have it delivered to a host-level socket. This enables data injection into existing connections, spoofing of peer identity in newly accepted sockets, accept-queue exhaustion, and killing of established connections. The fix adds a check that drops frames unless the socket's bound device matches the ingress device; because bound sockets always reference a host-level device, frames from other namespaces are automatically rejected. The attack requires access to an s390 system with AF_IUCV support. The primary exploit path uses unprivileged containers, which a local account can create to gain the capability needed to send raw traffic.

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BranchIntroducedFixed inPatch commit
6.63.26.6.1570a5af67e7184
7.23.27.2.4a7f0130a0917
mainline3.27.3-rc180230a18c164
5.103.25.10.270639828ad4d37
6.13.26.1.188712330f8a429
6.183.26.18.508e3763f1ccac
5.153.25.15.22192e5c281f1ca
6.123.26.12.109dfac2936b83b
cip/6.123.26.12.111-cip32dfac2936b83b