# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74735"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-26T14:36:49.352Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:46:21.709Z"
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-2026-74735"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74735.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74735"
title: "l2tp: fix tunnel and session refcount leak on seq_file release"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nl2tp: fix tunnel and session refcount leak on seq_file release\n\nIn pppol2tp_proc_open() and l2tp_dfs_seq_open(), iteration state\n(pd-\u003etunnel and pd-\u003esession) is kept in seq_file private data to allow\niteration across multiple read() system calls.\n\nHowever, if userspace closes /proc/net/pppol2tp or /sys/kernel/debug/l2tp/tunnels\nbefore reading to end-of-file (EOF), any tunnel or session reference stored in\npd-\u003etunnel / pd-\u003esession is left un-dropped when seq_file private data is freed.\n\nFix this by dropping any remaining pd-\u003etunnel and pd-\u003esession references in\npppol2tp_proc_release() and l2tp_dfs_seq_release() when closing the file."
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