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    "id": "CVE-2026-68119",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68119",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-08-10T11:58:39.026Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-08-17T04:59:09.650Z",
    "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"
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      "title": "tcp: initialize standalone TCP-AO response padding",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: initialize standalone TCP-AO response padding\n\ntcp_v4_send_ack() and tcp_v6_send_response() construct standalone TCP\nresponses with TCP-AO options.  The option length carries the actual MAC\nlength, but the TCP header length includes the option rounded up to a\nfour-byte boundary.\n\ntcp_ao_hash_hdr() writes the MAC only.  Thus, when the MAC length is not\nfour-byte aligned, the one to three bytes after the MAC are left\nuninitialized and may be transmitted.  For the normal TCP-AO hashing\nmode, those bytes also have to be initialized before computing the MAC.\n\nInitialize only the alignment padding in the TCP-AO branches, before\nhashing the header.  Use TCPOPT_NOP, as in the normal TCP-AO output path.\nThis avoids adding work to non-AO TCP responses while preserving a valid\nauthenticated header.",
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              "version": "6.12.101",
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