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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74692" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:55.873Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:09.513Z" 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-2026-74692" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74692.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74692" title: "net/smc: fix TOCTOU race between smc_listen_out() and listener close" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix TOCTOU race between smc_listen_out() and listener close\n\nsmc_listen_out() reads lsmc-\u003esk.sk_state without the listener lock,\nthen acquires lock_sock_nested() only after the check passes. This\nopens a window where smc_close_active() can transition the listener\nto SMC_CLOSED, call smc_close_cleanup_listen() to drain the accept\nqueue, and release the lock, all between the lockless read and the\ndelayed lock acquisition:\n\n smc_listen_work (smc_hs_wq) smc_close_active()\n ------------------------------- -------------------------\n release_sock(child)\n if (sk_state == SMC_LISTEN) TRUE\n lock_sock(listener)\n sk_state = SMC_CLOSED\n smc_close_cleanup_listen()\n release_sock(listener)\n flush_work(tcp_listen_work)\n lock_sock_nested(listener)\n smc_accept_enqueue(listener, child) /* child enqueued on dead listener */\n\nsmc_close_active() flushes only tcp_listen_work. Work items already\ndispatched onto smc_hs_wq for the CLC handshake continue running\nunguarded. smc_accept_enqueue() takes a sock_hold() on the child that\nis never released, so the child smc_sock, its clcsock, and the\nreference all leak. A remote peer that opens TCP connections while the\nserver calls close() can exhaust kernel memory.\n\nMove lock_sock_nested() to before the sk_state check so that the test\nand the enqueue are atomic under the listener lock." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fd57770dd198f5b2ddd5b9e6bf282cf98d63adb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53c7938d8bcfde3296ec1a347ba2a9393c1fdcfa"},{"version":"fd57770dd198f5b2ddd5b9e6bf282cf98d63adb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"feb71634bb1abab3e8fb5cde874b27001cc1282e"},{"version":"fd57770dd198f5b2ddd5b9e6bf282cf98d63adb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01865e1ddb126b25ac9eba5cdd7ec49e11183a64"},{"version":"fd57770dd198f5b2ddd5b9e6bf282cf98d63adb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00f89433777236ced4771211047fb5d4cd581cea"},{"version":"fd57770dd198f5b2ddd5b9e6bf282cf98d63adb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78e5ebcd1c10ed7c8bda0a99e0abd5b62da86d67"},{"version":"fd57770dd198f5b2ddd5b9e6bf282cf98d63adb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff5bcd804b5bc5c64736b7d318c20e12ea9506b8"},{"version":"fd57770dd198f5b2ddd5b9e6bf282cf98d63adb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"185a4caeecabc150106deda1da170b09f2ad803f"},{"version":"d1d004585b40c212b338fc8a40cbaaf230ea4703","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.19.299","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"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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