CVE-2026-74436: rxrpc: serialize kernel accept preallocation with socket teardown

Published Aug 15, 2026
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Updated

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

rxrpc: serialize kernel accept preallocation with socket teardown

rxrpckernelchargeaccept() reads rx->backlog without any socket/backlog synchronization and passes that raw pointer into rxrpcservicepreallocone(). A concurrent rxrpcdiscardprealloc() sets rx->backlog = NULL and frees the backlog rings, so a kernel preallocation worker can keep using a freed struct rxrpcbacklog while updating backloghead/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.

Event History

Aug 15, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:59 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:59 AM
Description
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