CVE-2026-74696 (GCVE-0-2026-74696)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:32 – Updated: 2026-08-25 05:41
VLAI
Title
tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration A listener's TCP_FASTOPEN max_qlen stops being accurate and lets through far more pending Fast Open requests than it was configured for. This only shows up with SO_REUSEPORT listener migration, where closing a listener hands its still-pending TFO children over to a surviving one. fastopenq.qlen is charged in tcp_fastopen_create_child() when the child is created and uncharged in reqsk_fastopen_remove() when the handshake completes. The uncharge follows rsk_listener of the request the child points at, and inet_reqsk_clone() has repointed the child at a new request owned by the new listener, so the ++ and the -- land on two different sockets. The new listener's qlen drifts negative and its limit no longer binds. Charge the new listener during migration, like reqsk_queue_migrated() already does for queue->young and queue->qlen.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 , < e98f0d80b9cccb5f828425d2004f9686e7d1ae24 (git)
Affected: 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 , < b6247e0f96bd825ffb2005257f6177b5e642dee6 (git)
Affected: 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 , < 585fc5247d14939a561056aa2addd9b7c2b1f670 (git)
Affected: 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 , < 6e10ee56524a26b250229ad348637825646ddb88 (git)
Affected: 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 , < a66e869cf0c90c1e47ae75f72b6482acbfc808ff (git)
Affected: 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 , < d974618b2097453778389d385e3741629c40e0a3 (git)
Affected: 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 , < a0ab2ba83e35159d81cec830a92e885ecf8139be (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.152 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.104 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.45 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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