---
id: CVE-2026-99213
title: 'vsock: treat TCP_CLOSING as once-established'
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  vsock: treat TCP_CLOSING as once-established

  Handle the TCP_ESTABLISHED -> TCP_CLOSING transition on OP_RST, which can
  race with the connect loop. Immediately break an…
severity: none
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
affected:
  - >-
    Linux >= d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 <
    c2c5359ef2c33684fa3f3652fd761a483db8d1e7
  - >-
    Linux >= d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 <
    44d1ca05d6094a5d75c671a0545249186d790b8d
  - >-
    Linux >= d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 <
    4f6ac74fa594a918d41255c941256e1d51592d3b
  - Linux 3.9
published: '2026-10-28'
updated: '2026-10-28'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-28T10:36:06.441Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99213'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2c5359ef2c33684fa3f3652fd761a483db8d1e7'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44d1ca05d6094a5d75c671a0545249186d790b8d'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f6ac74fa594a918d41255c941256e1d51592d3b'
tags:
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-10-28T11:09:40.355Z'
---

## Overview

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vsock: treat TCP_CLOSING as once-established

Handle the TCP_ESTABLISHED -> TCP_CLOSING transition on OP_RST, which can
race with the connect loop. Immediately break and return 0 on
ESTABLISHED/CLOSING. The return value of connect() should reflect what
happened up to the point the connection was established or failed. Events
that occur afterwards must not affect it. E.g. even if OP_RW has already
set sk_err, connect() should still return 0, not ENOBUFS because of it.
Adapt the inaccurate comment above signal_pending().

Resetting a socket that is still present in connected_table can lead to
memory corruption. The reporter noted lost transports for in-flight skbs,
and I have reproduced crashes caused by re-insertion into connected_table.

  list_add double add: new=, prev=, next=.
  kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:35!
  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  Workqueue: vsock-loopback vsock_loopback_work
  RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0x11f/0x130
  Call Trace:
   vsock_insert_connected.cold+0xe/0x13
   virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x10e9/0x1460
   vsock_loopback_work+0x305/0x480
   process_one_work+0xe4c/0x1560
   worker_thread+0x4f1/0xd60
   kthread+0x36e/0x470
   ret_from_fork+0x47b/0x6b0
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

This fix is supplementary to commit 002541ef650b ("vsock: Ignore
signal/timeout on connect() if already established"). Details under Link.

## Affected

- `Linux >= d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 < c2c5359ef2c33684fa3f3652fd761a483db8d1e7`
- `Linux >= d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 < 44d1ca05d6094a5d75c671a0545249186d790b8d`
- `Linux >= d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238 < 4f6ac74fa594a918d41255c941256e1d51592d3b`
- `Linux 3.9`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.