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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74609" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:31:56.054Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:06:01.059Z" 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-2026-74609" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74609.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74609" title: "tipc: read le-\u003elink under the node lock in tipc_node_link_down()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: read le-\u003elink under the node lock in tipc_node_link_down()\n\ntipc_node_link_down() caches the link pointer before taking n-\u003elock:\n\n\tstruct tipc_link *l = le-\u003elink;\t\t/* unlocked */\n\n\tif (!l)\n\t\treturn;\n\ttipc_node_write_lock(n);\n\tif (!tipc_link_is_establishing(l)) {\t/* deref l */\n\t...\n\t\ttipc_link_reset(l);\t\t/* write into l */\n\tif (delete) {\n\t\tkfree(l);\n\t\tle-\u003elink = NULL;\n\nThe delete=true caller frees that very object under n-\u003elock, so the lock\ndoes not protect the cached pointer against it:\n\n - CPU A, delete=false: tipc_rcv() on TIPC_LINK_DOWN_EVT, or the link\n supervision timer via tipc_node_timeout(), reads l unlocked and then\n dereferences it under n-\u003elock;\n - CPU B, delete=true: netlink TIPC_NL_BEARER_DISABLE -\u003e bearer_disable()\n -\u003e tipc_node_delete_links() -\u003e tipc_node_link_down(n, bearer_id, true)\n -\u003e kfree(l).\n\nThe link is freed with plain kfree(), not kfree_rcu(), and for UDP bearers\ndisable_media() only schedules the asynchronous cleanup_bearer() work, so\nits synchronize_net() runs after the links are already gone. An in-flight\nCPU A that has read l therefore dereferences freed memory once B frees it:\na use-after-free read in tipc_link_is_establishing(), and a use-after-free\nwrite via tipc_link_reset() on the establishing branch.\n\nThe following trace was captured on 7.2.0-rc5-00284-gaf39eb111ce6:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tipc_link_is_establishing (net/tipc/link.c:285)\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802e2aa068 by task swapper/2/0\n tipc_link_is_establishing (net/tipc/link.c:285)\n tipc_node_link_down (net/tipc/node.c:1076)\n tipc_node_timeout (net/tipc/node.c:843)\n Allocated by task 9549:\n tipc_link_create (net/tipc/link.c:490)\n tipc_node_check_dest (net/tipc/node.c:1279)\n tipc_disc_rcv (net/tipc/discover.c:252)\n tipc_udp_recv (net/tipc/udp_media.c:389)\n Freed by task 9549:\n tipc_node_link_down (net/tipc/node.c:1084)\n tipc_node_delete_links (net/tipc/node.c:1320)\n bearer_disable (net/tipc/bearer.c:414)\n __tipc_nl_bearer_disable (net/tipc/bearer.c:992)\n\nMove the le-\u003elink read inside tipc_node_write_lock(), so it is serialised\nagainst the kfree() in the delete path. A racing teardown now either has\nnot run yet, and we see a valid link, or has already run, and we see NULL." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"73f646cec35477b5099d7e952297cb9e1855be45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2be741ad565c610871a6a95062c12c39da7168fd"},{"version":"73f646cec35477b5099d7e952297cb9e1855be45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69d209461c110388710e483a130caf051e4fd09a"},{"version":"73f646cec35477b5099d7e952297cb9e1855be45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de017c22135f545ca4e65d1eada22887b64958eb"},{"version":"73f646cec35477b5099d7e952297cb9e1855be45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47ba70891b10b2feb52462086b7fcd2ad75d3ce3"},{"version":"73f646cec35477b5099d7e952297cb9e1855be45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a714d62513befef37f71f4ae89bb1fe173b65f2e"},{"version":"73f646cec35477b5099d7e952297cb9e1855be45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3f2347a47754eac690967cfd82cb6d559817b07"},{"version":"73f646cec35477b5099d7e952297cb9e1855be45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5558a8312452ddb21eff22b1cbd84302ad951944"},{"version":"73f646cec35477b5099d7e952297cb9e1855be45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cba9ccb47e9fa4cc77692fb896cc5ab57a667882"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","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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