CVE-2026-68289
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: fix integer overflow in tipc_recvmsg() and tipc_recvstream()
In tipc_recvmsg(), the copy length is computed as:
copy = min_t(int, dlen - offset, buflen);
buflen is size_t but min_t(int, ...) casts it to int. When buflen exceeds INT_MAX (e.g. 0xFFFFFFFF via io_uring provided buffers), it wraps negative, wins the comparison, and the negative copy length propagates to simple_copy_to_iter() where int-to-size_t promotion makes it SIZE_MAX, triggering a WARN_ON. tipc_recvstream() has the same pattern.
Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel: panic_on_warn set ... RIP: 0010:simple_copy_to_iter+0x9e/0xd0 (net/core/datagram.c:521) Call Trace: __skb_datagram_iter+0x123/0x8b0 (net/core/datagram.c:402) skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x77/0x1a0 (net/core/datagram.c:534) tipc_recvmsg+0x3d7/0xe80 (net/tipc/socket.c:1934) io_recvmsg+0x47e/0xda0
Fix by changing min_t(int, ...) to min_t(size_t, ...) in both functions. The result is always <= (dlen - offset), which is bounded by TIPC maximum message size (0x1ffff bytes), so the implicit narrowing on assignment to int copy is always safe.
Affected products
15- osv-coords14 versionspkg:linux/kernelpkg:rpm/opensuse/dtb-aarch64&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-64kb&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-azure&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-default&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-default-base&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-docs&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-kvmsmall&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-obs-build&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-obs-qa&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-rt&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-syms&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-zfcpdump&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0
>= 4.12.0, < 6.1.189+ 13 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 4.12.0, < 6.1.189
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1.160000.2.22
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.38.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b6066313b9b8fac870483bf7a26d6bd56579747nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/47f42ff521b4eeb46e82f9a46a4783a99f7570d7nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7364014fdc289225229eb08de8bcbf4580e78e4dnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/93580911f02d1f4a506ec0a6fc4354140c53ffe8nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fd4f92671146b068809b6c34b50346cb30cf8f7nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe9bf32bb18f2d35789d4960fb007d1059bbaa38nvd
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