CVE-2026-43411

tipc: fix divide-by-zero in tipc_sk_filter_connect()

published May 8, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

tipc: fix divide-by-zero in tipc_sk_filter_connect()

A user can set conn_timeout to any value via

setsockopt(TIPC_CONN_TIMEOUT), including values less than 4. When a

SYN is rejected with TIPC_ERR_OVERLOAD and the retry path in

tipc_sk_filter_connect() executes:

delay %= (tsk->conn_timeout / 4);

If conn_timeout is in the range [0, 3], the integer division yields 0,

and the modulo operation triggers a divide-by-zero exception, causing a

kernel oops/panic.

Fix this by clamping conn_timeout to a minimum of 4 at the point of use

in tipc_sk_filter_connect().

Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 119 Comm: poc-F144 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc2+

RIP: 0010:tipc_sk_filter_rcv (net/tipc/socket.c:2236 net/tipc/socket.c:2362)

Call Trace:

tipc_sk_backlog_rcv (include/linux/instrumented.h:82 include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 include/net/sock.h:2357 net/tipc/socket.c:2406)

__release_sock (include/net/sock.h:1185 net/core/sock.c:3213)

release_sock (net/core/sock.c:3797)

tipc_connect (net/tipc/socket.c:2570)

__sys_connect (include/linux/file.h:62 include/linux/file.h:83 net/socket.c:2098)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.1th percentile
Published
2026-05-08T14:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 14:21Z
    tipc: fix divide-by-zero in tipc_sk_filter_connect()
    cvelistv5