CVE-2026-99133 json
net/iucv: fix the recvmsg window update
published 14d ago modified 12d ago also EUVD-2026-111885
- cvss
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- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/iucv: fix the recvmsg window update
iucv_sock_recvmsg() sends the HiperSockets-only AF_IUCV_FLAG_WIN without testing the transport, so on a classic z/VM socket iucv_send_ctrl() sizes the skb through a NULL iucv->hs_dev. SO_MSGLIMIT accepts 1, so msglimit / 2 is zero and one recvmsg() on its own socket is enough for an unprivileged process to take a spurious disconnect.
It also calls iucv_send_ctrl() under spin_lock_bh(&message_q.lock), which allocates GFP_KERNEL inside a section the code treats as atomic. Sending outside that lock lets two recvmsg() reach afiucv_hs_send() at once, where msg_recv is sampled for the advertised window and subtracted after dev_queue_xmit() -- and sendmsg reaches that counter under lock_sock() while recvmsg holds no socket lock, so both can subtract the same value, the counter goes negative and the credit reaches the peer twice.
Test the transport, claim the credit with atomic_xchg() after the last error exit and hand it back if the transmit fails, and send once the lock is dropped.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 7.3
- linux Debian 13 6.12.115-2
- linux Debian 14 7.2.13-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-99133
- kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.161.1-1
azure linux advisories AZL-111251
Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/01123990f59ce32a1a5e690a4aeee002e932bb07 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ebe68bbf8e75eeccaca0c7bc9694f5bc0c3f00a commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/23e7fbbdca5aaba2a9a7bb9e4f2dc179c290ee76 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce8aac3eb57f5366fa082b7cb8a1ac5652274f37 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f2efa742f4cfe7dd756154f8bc07350dbe3ec92 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe7393a627db2d093e8c0cae69d619b30fefae5f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa5acd038ea657ad5033713d6916214cbd349151 commit
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What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-99133 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via improper receive window handling in af_iucv
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 moreaffected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/01123990f59ce32a1a5e690a4aeee002e932bb07
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/1ebe68bbf8e75eeccaca0c7bc9694f5bc0c3f00a
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/23e7fbbdca5aaba2a9a7bb9e4f2dc179c290ee76
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ce8aac3eb57f5366fa082b7cb8a1ac5652274f37
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8f2efa742f4cfe7dd756154f8bc07350dbe3ec92
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/fe7393a627db2d093e8c0cae69d619b30fefae5f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/fa5acd038ea657ad5033713d6916214cbd349151
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-99133
- NVD CVE-2026-99133
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