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GHSA-P3F2-6553-5MWV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-17 06:33

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

rxrpc: Fix the reception of a reply packet before data transmission

Fix rxrpc_receiving_reply() to handle the reception of an apparent reply DATA packet before rxrpc has had a chance to send any request DATA packets on a client call by checking to see if the call has been exposed yet by sending the first packet.

Without this, rxrpc_rotate_tx_window() might oops.

Also fix rxrpc_rotate_tx_window() to handle the Tx queue being empty by changing the do...while loop into a while loop, just in case a call is abnormally terminated by an early reply before the last request packet is transmitted.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-74429 (GCVE-0-2026-74429)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:59 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:47

Title

rxrpc: Fix the reception of a reply packet before data transmission

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix the reception of a reply packet before data transmission Fix rxrpc_receiving_reply() to handle the reception of an apparent reply DATA packet before rxrpc has had a chance to send any request DATA packets on a client call by checking to see if the call has been exposed yet by sending the first packet. Without this, rxrpc_rotate_tx_window() might oops. Also fix rxrpc_rotate_tx_window() to handle the Tx queue being empty by changing the do...while loop into a while loop, just in case a call is abnormally terminated by an early reply before the last request packet is transmitted.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9be514984471ff00…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e220ae559e5a0fc33…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a58e33405acd2584e…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: b341a0263b1b804d329f864c2dc24815364510ec , < f9be514984471ff0003738b2e1efed12bc3433ff (git) Affected: b341a0263b1b804d329f864c2dc24815364510ec , < e220ae559e5a0fc33e41ec6a348ea50387cb8b0f (git) Affected: b341a0263b1b804d329f864c2dc24815364510ec , < a58e33405acd2584e730c1da72635f822ada6b49 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.14 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (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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