# 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-2026-74255"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:34.293Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:27.929Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74255"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74255.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74255"
title: "tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg()\n\nSyzbot reported a slab-use-after-free in ipvlan_hard_header() when\ncalled from tipc_l2_send_msg().\n\nThe root cause is that tipc_disable_l2_media() calls synchronize_net()\nwhile b-\u003emedia_ptr is still valid. This allows concurrent RCU readers\nto obtain the device pointer after synchronize_net() has finished.\nThe pointer is cleared later in bearer_disable(), but without any\nsubsequent synchronization, allowing the device to be freed while\nstill in use by readers.\n\nFix this by clearing b-\u003emedia_ptr in tipc_disable_l2_media() before\ncalling synchronize_net().\n\nThis is safe to do now because the call order in bearer_disable()\nwas reversed in 0d051bf93c06 (\"tipc: make bearer packet filtering generic\")\nto call tipc_node_delete_links() (which needs the pointer) before\ndisable_media().\n\nhttps: //lore.kernel.org/netdev/6a2c1007.428ffe26.258b27.015d.GAE@google.com/T/#u"
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