Bug 2516929 (CVE-2026-74436) - CVE-2026-74436 kernel: rxrpc: serialize kernel accept preallocation with socket teardown
Summary: CVE-2026-74436 kernel: rxrpc: serialize kernel accept preallocation with sock...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74436
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:40 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-20 23:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:40:54 UTC
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.


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