# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74386"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:01.786Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:45:34.958Z"
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-2026-74386"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74386.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74386"
title: "nvmet-tcp: fix page fragment cache leak in error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet-tcp: fix page fragment cache leak in error path\n\nIn nvmet_tcp_alloc_queue(), when a connection is closed during the\nallocation process (e.g., nvmet_tcp_set_queue_sock() returns -ENOTCONN),\nthe error handling jumps to out_destroy_sq and then to out_ida_remove\nwithout draining the page fragment cache.\n\nAlthough nvmet_tcp_free_cmd() is called in some error paths to release\nindividual page fragments, the underlying page cache reference held by\nqueue-\u003epf_cache is never released. The first allocation using pf_cache\nis the call to nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmd() for queue-\u003econnect, which happens\nafter ida_alloc() returns successfully. This results in a page leak each\ntime a connection fails during allocation, which could lead to memory\nexhaustion over time if connections are repeatedly opened and closed.\n\nFix this by calling page_frag_cache_drain() before freeing the queue\nstructure in the out_ida_remove label."
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