# 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-2026-68290"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:23.425Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:43:43.436Z"
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-2026-68290"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68290.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68290"
title: "rds: tcp: unregister sysctl before tearing down listen socket"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrds: tcp: unregister sysctl before tearing down listen socket\n\nrds_tcp_exit_net() frees the per-netns RDS TCP listen socket via\nrds_tcp_kill_sock() before unregistering the per-netns sysctl table.  Since\nrds_tcp_skbuf_handler() derives the netns from\nrtn-\u003erds_tcp_listen_sock-\u003esk, a concurrent sysctl write can race with\nnetns teardown and dereference the freed socket/sk.\n\nKASAN reports the race as:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rds_tcp_skbuf_handler+0x2aa/0x2e0\n  rds_tcp_skbuf_handler              net/rds/tcp.c:721\n  proc_sys_call_handler              fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c\n  vfs_write                          fs/read_write.c\n  __x64_sys_pwrite64                 fs/read_write.c\n\nFix this by unregistering the RDS TCP sysctl table before calling\nrds_tcp_kill_sock().  unregister_net_sysctl_table() prevents new sysctl\nhandlers from starting and waits for in-flight handlers to finish, so\nthe listen socket can then be released safely. The fix was tested\nagainst the linked reproducer."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"de8d6de0ee27be4b2b1e5b06f04aeacbabbba492","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80fffed08dc1c10e971066941d2daa56253f1552"},{"version":"7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16df2d154ec82e2f7e7585b4fa154751ba37729a"},{"version":"7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3aa13fe0c1bb7bc5312f878e61523e5d8cf3f85d"},{"version":"7f5611cbc4871c7fb1ad36c2e5a9edad63dca95c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"167e54c703ccd4fa028feb568b0d1002020cff86"},{"version":"33b3e09a489a31b30342b77cc55290f025d95c7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.101"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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