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CVE-2026-74433 (GCVE-0-2026-74433)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:59 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:47
VLAI
Title
rxrpc: Fix UAF in rxgk_issue_challenge()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix UAF in rxgk_issue_challenge() Fix rxgk_issue_challenge() to free the page containing the challenge content after invoking the tracepoint as the whdr passed to the tracepoint points into the page just freed.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a , < 844b8525ce503405c462ad67f750bec648720397 (git)
Affected: 9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a , < 83bb0ed050e2ad9453d8ef50e4d6e624eac6eed8 (git)
Affected: 9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a , < 107a4cb0d47e735830f852d83970d5c81f8e1e08 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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