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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74430" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:30.965Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:47:05.522Z" 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-2026-74430" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74430.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74430" title: "rxrpc: Fix ACKALL packet handling" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: Fix ACKALL packet handling\n\nrxrpc_input_ackall() accepts ACKALL packets without checking whether the\ncall is in a state that can legitimately have outstanding transmit buffers.\nA forged ACKALL can therefore reach a new service call in\nRXRPC_CALL_SERVER_RECV_REQUEST before any reply packets have been queued.\n\nIn that state call-\u003etx_top is zero and call-\u003etx_queue is NULL, so\nrxrpc_rotate_tx_window() dereferences a NULL txqueue and triggers a\nnull-pointer dereference.\n\nFix the handling of ACKALL packets by the following means:\n\n (1) Add two new call states: RXRPC_CALL_CLIENT_PRE_SEND which indicates\n that the client call is connected, but nothing has been transmitted as\n yet; and RXRPC_CALL_CLIENT_AWAIT_ACK, which indicates that everything\n has been transmitted at least once, but we're now waiting for the\n stuff remaining in the Tx buffer to be ACK'd (retransmissions may\n still happen).\n\n The RXRPC_CALL_CLIENT_PRE_SEND state is set when the call is assigned\n a channel and transitions to RXRPC_CALL_CLIENT_SEND_REQUEST when the\n first packet is transmitted.\n\n RXRPC_CALL_CLIENT_AWAIT_REPLY is then narrowed in scope to indicate\n that all Tx packets have been ACK'd and we're now waiting for the\n reply to be received.\n\n (2) As per Wyatt Feng's original patch[1], the ACKALL handler then checks\n that the call state is one in which there might be stuff in the Tx\n buffer to ACK, but now this includes AWAIT_ACK rather than\n AWAIT_REPLY. ACKALL packets are ignored if received in the wrong\n state.\n\n Note that unlike Wyatt Feng's patch, it's no longer necessary to check\n to see if the Tx buffer exists as this the state set now covers this.\n\n (3) Make the ACKALL handler use call-\u003etx_transmitted rather than\n call-\u003etx_top as the former is explicitly the highest packet seq number\n transmitted, whereas the latter has a looser definition.\n\nThanks to Jeffrey Altman for a description of the history of the ACKALL\npacket[1]." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b341a0263b1b804d329f864c2dc24815364510ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8db6a2c95e36938076b37466ce36774526a5c8c3"},{"version":"b341a0263b1b804d329f864c2dc24815364510ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"523cb585672ae681b2d3b0d620aec5313774e2e2"},{"version":"b341a0263b1b804d329f864c2dc24815364510ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b6ce594808580b2a19e6e1aa459ef56c0153ac1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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