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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74621"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:04.990Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:06:02.607Z"
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-2026-74621"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74621.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74621"
title: "net/sched: act_ct: fix sk_buff leak when the header checks reject a packet"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ct: fix sk_buff leak when the header checks reject a packet\n\ntcf_ct_handle_fragments() runs its header sanity checks before handing\nanything to the defragmentation engine:\n\n\tif (family == NFPROTO_IPV4)\n\t\terr = tcf_ct_ipv4_is_fragment(skb, &frag);\n\telse\n\t\terr = tcf_ct_ipv6_is_fragment(skb, &frag);\n\tif (err || !frag)\n\t\treturn err;\n\ntcf_ct_ipv4_is_fragment() returns -EINVAL or -ENOMEM;\ntcf_ct_ipv6_is_fragment() adds -EPROTO when ipv6_find_hdr() fails. None of\nthem frees or queues the skb, so on that path the caller still owns it.\n\ntcf_ct_act() however funnels every non-zero return into the\nownership-transfer exit:\n\n\terr = tcf_ct_handle_fragments(net, skb, family, p-\u003ezone, &defrag);\n\tif (err)\n\t\tgoto out_frag;\n\t...\nout_frag:\n\tif (err != -EINPROGRESS)\n\t\ttcf_action_inc_drop_qstats(&c-\u003ecommon);\n\treturn TC_ACT_CONSUMED;\n\nTC_ACT_CONSUMED means the action took ownership of the skb, so no caller\nfrees it - sch_handle_ingress(), sch_handle_egress() and\ntcf_qevent_handle() all deliberately skip the free for that verdict. The\nskb is therefore orphaned: one sk_buff plus its data buffer is leaked per\nmalformed packet, unbounded. Note the drop counter is already incremented\nfor these errors, so the statistics claim a drop that never happens.\n\nThree different ownership states reach out_frag: today - the skb may be\nqueued by the defrag engine (-EINPROGRESS), already freed by\nnf_ct_handle_fragments(), or still owned by us. Tell the caller which of\nthose it is, and free the packet ourselves in the last case, which\nrestores the TC_ACT_SHOT behaviour that predated the Fixes: commit.\n\nReproduced on v7.2-rc6 with a 54-byte frame carrying a 40-byte IPv6\nheader with nexthdr = 0 (hop-by-hop) and nothing after it, on a\nclsact ingress chain with \"action ct\". kmemleak reports one leaked\n232-byte skbuff_head_cache object plus its 704-byte data buffer per\npacket; with this patch it reports none."
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