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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74719" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:12.716Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:12.716Z" 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-2026-74719" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74719.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74719" title: "net/smc: fix qentry overwrite for CONFIRM_LINK and ADD_LINK_CONT in smc_llc_event_handler()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix qentry overwrite for CONFIRM_LINK and ADD_LINK_CONT in smc_llc_event_handler()\n\nThe SMC_LLC_CONFIRM_LINK / SMC_LLC_ADD_LINK_CONT branch in\nsmc_llc_event_handler() stores an incoming qentry into the local LLC flow\nwithout first checking whether a qentry is already pending. If a malicious or\nbuggy peer sends a second CONFIRM_LINK or ADD_LINK_CONT request while a flow is\nactive and flow-\u003eqentry is already set, smc_llc_flow_qentry_set() overwrites the\npointer without freeing the previous allocation, leaking one kmalloc-96 object\nper spurious message.\n\nThe sibling SMC_LLC_DELETE_LINK branch already has the correct !flow-\u003eqentry\nguard. Apply the same guard to the CONFIRM_LINK/ADD_LINK_CONT branch so that a\nduplicate message when qentry is already occupied falls through to break and is\nfreed by the kfree(qentry) at the out: label, rather than silently leaking the\nexisting allocation.\n\nThe response direction (smc_llc_rx_response()) is unaffected: it already guards\nwith flow-\u003eqentry at the equivalent site and drops duplicate responses\ncorrectly." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e384f3cba6ea709f5b2272b1770db4ce14047f78"},{"version":"0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a1e980d7a9e7ee6faf4f5fd7b450413b969af26d"},{"version":"0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0eb87677c76b157cdf8eb7c1f19e56227165a33"},{"version":"0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06734dfeaeba886aab1bf147249195b888ac3e4d"},{"version":"0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c23c409228629107203d3c3e95fff1473173f1a6"},{"version":"0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"10cb31b2b74cb664c6c95cf72364d7d5c483ab82"},{"version":"0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bfc336a9fbbf09805f3dfe25c195a4db90af2846"},{"version":"0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"976245094925bab9bc39366b2e9ab44ffcde61d0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"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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