# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74696"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:58.414Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:09.811Z"
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-2026-74696"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74696.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74696"
title: "tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration\n\nA listener's TCP_FASTOPEN max_qlen stops being accurate and lets through\nfar more pending Fast Open requests than it was configured for.\n\nThis only shows up with SO_REUSEPORT listener migration, where closing a\nlistener hands its still-pending TFO children over to a surviving one.\n\nfastopenq.qlen is charged in tcp_fastopen_create_child() when the child\nis created and uncharged in reqsk_fastopen_remove() when the handshake\ncompletes.  The uncharge follows rsk_listener of the request the child\npoints at, and inet_reqsk_clone() has repointed the child at a new\nrequest owned by the new listener, so the ++ and the -- land on two\ndifferent sockets.  The new listener's qlen drifts negative and its\nlimit no longer binds.\n\nCharge the new listener during migration, like reqsk_queue_migrated()\nalready does for queue-\u003eyoung and queue-\u003eqlen."
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