# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23414"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-02T11:40:55.746Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:42.998Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23414"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23414.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23414"
title: "tls: Purge async_hold in tls_decrypt_async_wait()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntls: Purge async_hold in tls_decrypt_async_wait()\n\nThe async_hold queue pins encrypted input skbs while\nthe AEAD engine references their scatterlist data. Once\ntls_decrypt_async_wait() returns, every AEAD operation\nhas completed and the engine no longer references those\nskbs, so they can be freed unconditionally.\n\nA subsequent patch adds batch async decryption to\ntls_sw_read_sock(), introducing a new call site that\nmust drain pending AEAD operations and release held\nskbs. Move __skb_queue_purge(&ctx-\u003easync_hold) into\ntls_decrypt_async_wait() so the purge is centralized\nand every caller -- recvmsg's drain path, the -EBUSY\nfallback in tls_do_decryption(), and the new read_sock\nbatch path -- releases held skbs on synchronization\nwithout each site managing the purge independently.\n\nThis fixes a leak when tls_strp_msg_hold() fails part-way through,\nafter having added some cloned skbs to the async_hold\nqueue. tls_decrypt_sg() will then call tls_decrypt_async_wait() to\nprocess all pending decrypts, and drop back to synchronous mode, but\ntls_sw_recvmsg() only flushes the async_hold queue when one record has\nbeen processed in \"fully-async\" mode, which may not be the case here.\n\n[pabeni@redhat.com: added leak comment]"
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