# 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-2026-74704"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:03.491Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:10.461Z"
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-2026-74704"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74704.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74704"
title: "net/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter\n\nThe sch_cake ACK filter parses packets to find the TCP header and filter\nduplicated ACKs if the flow is backlogged. The parsing code contains a\nWARN_ON(1) which can be triggered by a malformed IP header in certain\ncases. Depending on the system configuration, this leads either to\neither spamming dmesg with warnings, or a panic if panic_on_warn is set.\n\nThe code already correctly skips the offending packet in the branch that\ntriggers the warning, so the WARN_ON itself doesn't really serve any\npurpose. So just drop it altogether to avoid the inconvenient side\neffects."
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