CVE-2026-74696

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74696
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74696.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-74696
Downstream
Published
2026-08-22T15:32:58Z
Modified
2026-08-26T03:30:37Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/74xxx/CVE-2026-74696.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18
Fixed
e98f0d80b9cccb5f828425d2004f9686e7d1ae24
Fixed
b6247e0f96bd825ffb2005257f6177b5e642dee6
Fixed
585fc5247d14939a561056aa2addd9b7c2b1f670
Fixed
6e10ee56524a26b250229ad348637825646ddb88
Fixed
a66e869cf0c90c1e47ae75f72b6482acbfc808ff
Fixed
d974618b2097453778389d385e3741629c40e0a3
Fixed
a0ab2ba83e35159d81cec830a92e885ecf8139be

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74696.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.14.0
Fixed
5.15.216
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.183
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.152
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.104
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.45
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74696.json"