# 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-2026-80848"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:54:58.427Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:44:42.445Z"
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-2026-80848"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80848.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80848"
title: "xfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close\n\nZDI reported and analyzed a race condition during close for espintcp\nsockets:\n\n    espintcp_close() frees emsg-\u003eskb via kfree_skb() without holding\n    any socket lock. Concurrently, the xfrm_trans_reinject work queue\n    invokes esp_output_tcp_finish() -\u003e espintcp_push_skb() -\u003e\n    espintcp_push_msgs() -\u003e skb_send_sock_locked(), which reads the\n    same skb as a data source.\n\nFix this by adding a synchronize_rcu() call after resetting sk_prot,\nsince esp_output_tcp_finish() runs under RCU and won't use a socket\nwith sk_prot == &tcp_prot.  Simply taking the socket lock in\nespintcp_close() could lead to leaks, if esp_output_tcp_finish()\nre-adds an skb in the slot we just freed. After this, the existing\nbarrier() is no longer needed."
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