CVE-2026-74696

tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Aug 22, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Aug 15, 2026

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Description

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.

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
  • 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to before e98f0d80b9cccb5f828425d2004f9686e7d1ae24Affected
  • 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to before b6247e0f96bd825ffb2005257f6177b5e642dee6Affected
  • 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to before 585fc5247d14939a561056aa2addd9b7c2b1f670Affected
  • 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to before 6e10ee56524a26b250229ad348637825646ddb88Affected
  • 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to before a66e869cf0c90c1e47ae75f72b6482acbfc808ffAffected
  • 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to before d974618b2097453778389d385e3741629c40e0a3Affected
  • 54b92e84193749c9968aff2dd46e3b0f42643e18 to before a0ab2ba83e35159d81cec830a92e885ecf8139beAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 5.15.216 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.183 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.152 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.104 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.45 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.9 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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