# 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-2026-74550"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:57.615Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:55.243Z"
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-2026-74550"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74550.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74550"
title: "net: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails\n\nWhen inet_getpeer_v4() or inet_getpeer_v6() fails to allocate a peer entry\nunder memory pressure or tree size caps, redirect handlers previously fell\nback to sending un-rate-limited ICMP/NDISC Redirect messages.\n\nIn IPv4, ip_rt_send_redirect() called icmp_send() directly when peer == NULL.\nIn IPv6, ip6_forward() and ndisc_send_redirect() passed a NULL peer into\ninet_peer_xrlim_allow(), which returned true when peer == NULL.\n\nBecause ICMP/NDISC Redirects are not part of the default global rate limit\nmask (sysctl_icmp_ratemask), sending redirects when peer == NULL creates\nan un-rate-limited ICMP packet storm.\n\nFix this by failing closed in ip_rt_send_redirect(), ip6_forward(), and\nndisc_send_redirect() when peer is NULL."
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