Riskcovery

CVE-2026-68379

tcp: fix TIME_WAIT socket reference leak on PSP policy failure

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Aug 10, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 30, 2026

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Description

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

tcp: fix TIME_WAIT socket reference leak on PSP policy failure

Release the TIME_WAIT socket reference and jump to discard_it upon PSP policy failure in both IPv4 and IPv6 receive paths. This prevents a memory leak of tcp_tw_bucket structures.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 659a2899a57da59f433182eba571881884d6323e to before e666af5dcc905ba694745963174d232deb478c55Affected
  • 659a2899a57da59f433182eba571881884d6323e to before 374742a961becbbfc7fbfd1382d978a05e492741Affected
  • 659a2899a57da59f433182eba571881884d6323e to before 2c1931a81122c3cdc4c89448fe0442c69e21c0d5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.6 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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