CVE-2025-13350CWE-416

Use-after-free of orphaned AF_UNIX in Ubuntu builds of Linux kernel

High · published March 5, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Ubuntu Linux 6.8 GA retains the legacy AF_UNIX garbage collector but backports upstream commit 8594d9b85c07 ("af_unix: Don’t call skb_get() for OOB skb"). When orphaned MSG_OOB sockets hit unix_gc(), the garbage collector still calls kfree_skb() as if OOB SKBs held two references; on Ubuntu Linux 6.8 (Noble Numbat) kernel tree, they have only the queue reference, so the buffer is freed while still reachable and subsequent queue walks dereference freed memory, yielding a reliable local privilege escalation (LPE) caused by a use-after-free (UAF). Ubuntu builds that have already taken the new GC stack from commit 4090fa373f0e, and mainline Linux kernels shipping that infrastructure are unaffected because they no longer execute the legacy collector path. This issue affects Ubuntu Linux from 6.8.0-56.58 before 6.8.0-84.84.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
EPSS
0.00155 · 4.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2026-03-05T18:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 MAR 18:56Z
    Use-after-free of orphaned AF_UNIX in Ubuntu builds of Linux kernel
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