# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74666"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:38.098Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:08.102Z"
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-2026-74666"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74666.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74666"
title: "packet: synchronize pressure clearing with ring reconfiguration"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npacket: synchronize pressure clearing with ring reconfiguration\n\npacket_set_ring() updates the RX ring state under sk_receive_queue.lock,\nbut used to publish the tpacket receive mode through po-\u003eprot_hook.func\nafter releasing that lock. packet_poll() and packet_recvmsg() can then\nrun the pressure clearing path after the ring has been cleared while\nstill seeing tpacket_rcv, causing __packet_rcv_has_room() to dereference\nstale or NULL ring storage.\n\nMove the existing receive hook assignment into the same\nsk_receive_queue.lock section as the ring state update. Keep the\nassignment otherwise unchanged, including on TX ring reconfiguration, to\navoid adding behavior changes that are not required for the fix.\n\nSerialize packet_recvmsg() pressure clearing with the same queue lock\nonly after PACKET_SOCK_PRESSURE has been observed. If the flag is clear\nand the socket has moved away from tpacket_rcv, packet_set_ring() has\nalready detached the socket and waited for synchronize_net(), so no new\npacket input can set the flag again.\n\npacket_poll() already holds sk_receive_queue.lock, so it uses the new\nunlocked helper directly."
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