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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74543" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:53.336Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:45:53.873Z" 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-2026-74543" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74543.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74543" title: "net: udp_tunnel: fix memory leak in udp_tunnel_nic_unregister()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: udp_tunnel: fix memory leak in udp_tunnel_nic_unregister()\n\nsyzbot reported a memory leak [1] in the UDP tunnel NIC offload code.\n\nWhen device registration fails (e.g. in register_netdevice()), netdev core\nunwinds by sending a single NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification. If work was queued\nduring NETDEV_REGISTER (utn-\u003ework_pending is set), udp_tunnel_nic_unregister()\nreturns early:\n\n\tif (utn-\u003ework_pending)\n\t\treturn;\n\nBecause failed registrations do not enter netdev_wait_allrefs_any(), no\nsubsequent NETDEV_UNREGISTER rebroadcast will ever occur. As a result, the\nstruct udp_tunnel_nic allocated in udp_tunnel_nic_alloc() is leaked\npermanently.\n\nFix this by removing the early return. Instead, synchronously cancel any\npending work with cancel_delayed_work_sync() before freeing @utn.\n\nTo be able to call cancel_delayed_work_sync() while holding RTNL (the work also\nneeds RTNL), switch udp_tunnel_nic_device_sync_work() to rtnl_trylock(). If RTNL\nis contended, requeue the work with a 1 jiffy delay (via queue_delayed_work())\nto prevent high CPU contention while waiting for RTNL lock.\n\nThe utn-\u003ework_pending bookkeeping is no longer needed and is removed, as\nthe workqueue core already tracks the pending/running state of the work.\n\n[1]\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888127d5f840 (size 96):\n comm \"syz-executor\", pid 5806, jiffies 4294942188\n backtrace (crc 99fdb6c8):\n __kmalloc_noprof+0x3bf/0x550\n udp_tunnel_nic_alloc net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_nic.c:756 [inline]\n udp_tunnel_nic_register net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_nic.c:833 [inline]\n udp_tunnel_nic_netdevice_event+0x804/0xab0 net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_nic.c:931\n notifier_call_chain+0x59/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:85\n call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x7d/0xb0 net/core/dev.c:2250\n register_netdevice+0xc10/0xeb0 net/core/dev.c:11478" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cc4e3835eff474aa274d6e1d18f69d9d296d3b76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52c753b46265243406690d980faa9514d3f53827"},{"version":"cc4e3835eff474aa274d6e1d18f69d9d296d3b76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b712da45bd9b9835d132e9fbc0c3e43c164cb1fd"},{"version":"cc4e3835eff474aa274d6e1d18f69d9d296d3b76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f82a2ded3d7a9098267c84f14eafdb98c4550ac5"},{"version":"cc4e3835eff474aa274d6e1d18f69d9d296d3b76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b322532a4b774db1b480a2de84125910a70739a5"},{"version":"cc4e3835eff474aa274d6e1d18f69d9d296d3b76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"080695e6f005e2396f1207fd69d24c442cb230c6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","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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