# 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-2026-68118"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:58:38.000Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:51.621Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68118"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68118.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68118"
title: "tcp: challenge ACK for non-exact RST in SYN-RECEIVED"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: challenge ACK for non-exact RST in SYN-RECEIVED\n\nThe SYN-RECEIVED request-socket path in tcp_check_req() accepts an\nin-window RST without requiring SEG.SEQ to exactly match RCV.NXT.  A\nnon-exact RST therefore removes the request instead of eliciting a\nchallenge ACK.\n\nRFC 9293 section 3.10.7.4 applies the RFC 5961 reset check in\nSYN-RECEIVED: an exact RST resets the connection, while a non-exact\nin-window RST must trigger a challenge ACK and be dropped.\n\nApply that check before the ACK-field validation, following the RFC\nsequence-number, RST, then ACK processing order.  Factor the per-netns\nchallenge ACK quota out of tcp_send_challenge_ack() so request sockets\ncan share it.  Use the request socket's send_ack() callback and its own\nout-of-window ACK timestamp to send and rate-limit the response."
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