CVE-2026-74436

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: serialize kernel accept preallocation with socket teardown rxrpc_kernel_charge_accept() reads rx->backlog without any socket/backlog synchronization and passes that raw pointer into rxrpc_service_prealloc_one(). A concurrent rxrpc_discard_prealloc() sets rx->backlog = NULL and frees the backlog rings, so a kernel preallocation worker can keep using a freed struct rxrpc_backlog while updating *_backlog_head/tail and array slots. Serialize the state check and backlog lookup with the socket lock, and reject kernel preallocation once teardown has disabled listening or discarded the service backlog.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfa0b2bbc5e50119f89c6b5407faa5ed86dfa7c5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc175389b18c29a5303ee83169ec653adfae3e17

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35a967ff8b24db09ee429c39c5b5e6571639997d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1741378a7a83dfd8e53a9196730df709b903cd33

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0337cdba0c477f176c0459bed012109453184573

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00157