# 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-2026-68140"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:03.761Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:53.121Z"
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-2026-68140"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68140.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68140"
title: "net/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path\n\naf_iucv queues not-yet-received message notifications on iucv-\u003emessage_q,\neach holding a raw pointer to the connection's iucv_path.  When the peer\nsevers the connection, iucv_sever_path() frees that path with\niucv_path_free() but leaves the notifications queued.  A later recvmsg()\ndrains message_q via iucv_process_message_q() and hands the stale path to\nmessage_receive() -- a use-after-free of the freed iucv_path.\n\nDrop the queued notifications when the path is severed; once the path is\ngone they can no longer be received.  This also frees the notifications\nleaked when a socket is closed with messages still queued."
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