# 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-2026-68397"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:04:16.772Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:08.287Z"
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-2026-68397"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68397.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68397"
title: "net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv()\n\nafiucv_hs_rcv() looks up the destination socket under iucv_sk_list.lock,\ndrops the lock, and then passes the socket to the afiucv_hs_callback_*()\nhandlers without holding a reference. AF_IUCV sockets are not\nRCU-protected and are freed synchronously by iucv_sock_kill() -\u003e\nsock_put(), so a concurrent close can free the socket in the window\nbetween read_unlock() and the handler, which then dereferences freed\nmemory (for example sk-\u003esk_data_ready() in afiucv_hs_callback_syn()).\n\nTake a reference with sock_hold() while the socket is still on the list\nand release it with sock_put() once the handler has run."
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