# 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-2026-68141"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:05.051Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:53.262Z"
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-2026-68141"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68141.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68141"
title: "net/af_iucv: fix NULL deref in afiucv_hs_callback_syn()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/af_iucv: fix NULL deref in afiucv_hs_callback_syn()\n\nafiucv_hs_callback_syn() allocates the child socket with GFP_ATOMIC.\nIf the allocation fails, nsk is NULL.\n\nThe connection-refused path is entered when the listen state check\nfails, the accept backlog is full, or nsk is NULL. The code\nunconditionally calls iucv_sock_kill(nsk) in that path.\n\niucv_sock_kill() does not accept a NULL socket pointer and immediately\ndereferences sk via sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED). When nsk is NULL,\ncalling iucv_sock_kill(nsk) results in a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nOnly call iucv_sock_kill() when a child socket was successfully\nallocated."
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