# 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-2026-68144"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:08.437Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:53.730Z"
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-2026-68144"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68144.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68144"
title: "phonet: pep: fix use-after-free in pep_get_sb()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nphonet: pep: fix use-after-free in pep_get_sb()\n\npep_get_sb() doesn't consider that pskb_may_pull() might have relocated\nthe skb data, and continue to access the older pointer, causing UAF.\n\nReproduced under KASAN:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pep_get_sb+0x234/0x3b0\n  Read of size 1 at addr ff11000105510f50 by task repro/157\n   pep_get_sb+0x234/0x3b0\n   pipe_handler_do_rcv+0x5f7/0xa10\n   pep_do_rcv+0x203/0x410\n   __sk_receive_skb+0x471/0x4a0\n   phonet_rcv+0x5b3/0x6c0\n   __netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0x1d0\n\nRefetch the header with skb_header_pointer() after pskb_may_pull(), so\nthe possibly stale pointer is no longer dereferenced. There are better\nways to solve this, but, this is the less instrusive one."
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