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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74620"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:04.254Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:47:46.379Z"
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-2026-74620"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74620.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74620"
title: "net/sched: act_gact, act_police: range check the fallback control action"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_gact, act_police: range check the fallback control action\n\ntcf_action_check_ctrlact() range checks the primary control action:\n\n\tif (!opcode)\n\t\tret = action \u003e TC_ACT_VALUE_MAX ? -EINVAL : 0;\n\nTC_ACT_VALUE_MAX is TC_ACT_TRAP, so kernel-internal verdicts above it\ncannot be set that way. But act_gact and act_police each carry a second,\nindependent control action supplied by user space that never reaches that\nhelper - TCA_GACT_PROB.paction and TCA_POLICE_RESULT. Both only reject\nTC_ACT_GOTO_CHAIN, so any other value is stored verbatim and returned\nverbatim from the action.\n\nIn particular user space can store TC_ACT_CONSUMED, which is\nTC_ACT_VALUE_MAX + 1 and is deliberately not part of the UAPI value\nrange. That verdict tells every caller the action took ownership of the\nskb, so nobody frees it: sch_handle_ingress(), sch_handle_egress() and\ntcf_qevent_handle() all deliberately skip the free for it. The result is\none leaked sk_buff plus its data buffer per packet traversing the filter,\nunbounded, for all traffic on the chain including kernel-generated\npackets.\n\nBoth are trivially deterministic. act_gact clamps tcfg_pval to \u003e= 1, so\nwith pval = 1 gact_determ() returns the fallback for every packet.\nact_police has no mandatory rate, so rate = 0 leaves tcfp_mtu = ~0 and\ntcf_police_mtu_check() always passes.\n\nTC_ACT_CONSUMED was added by commit 720f22fed81b (\"net: sched: refactor\nreinsert action\"), after both goto-chain guards were written:\ncommit 9469f375ab09 (\"net/sched: act_gact: disallow 'goto chain' on\nfallback control action\") and\ncommit c08f5ed5d625 (\"net/sched: act_police: disallow 'goto chain' on\nfallback control action\"). Neither guard was widened when the new\nverdict appeared.\n\nFactor the existing range test out of tcf_action_check_ctrlact() as\ntcf_action_valid() and apply it to both fallbacks. The helper cannot call\ntcf_action_check_ctrlact() directly because that also allocates a\ngoto_chain, which is exactly what these two sites must not do.\n\nReproduced on v7.2-rc6: kmemleak reports one leaked 232-byte\nskbuff_head_cache object plus its 704-byte data buffer per packet. With\nthis patch both configurations are rejected with -EINVAL and kmemleak\nreports none."
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