# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-52993"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:06.475Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:47:12.544Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-52993"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52993.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52993"
title: "tipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append()\n\ntipc_msg_validate() can potentially reallocate the skb it is validating,\nfreeing the old one.  In tipc_buf_append(), it was being called with a\npointer to a local variable which was a copy of the caller's skb\npointer.\n\nIf the skb was reallocated and validation subsequently failed, the error\nhandling path would free the original skb pointer, which had already\nbeen freed, leading to double-free.\n\nFix this by checking if head now points to a newly allocated reassembled\nskb.  If it does, reassign *headbuf for later freeing operations."
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