# 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-2026-80849"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:54:59.412Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:44:43.405Z"
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-2026-80849"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80849.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80849"
title: "net/tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of current_key on reconnect to another peer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of current_key on reconnect to another peer\n\ntcp_inbound_ao_hash() is called before bh_lock_sock_nested() is taken,\nwith only rcu_read_lock() held. On the fast path for established\nsockets, if the rnext_keyid sent by the peer differs from\ncurrent_key-\u003esndid, the key the peer asked for is looked up and stored\nin current_key. The lookup is inside the RCU read side, but current_key\noutlives it.\n\nWhen the socket is disconnected and connect() is called again for\nanother peer, tcp_ao_connect_init() unlinks every key that does not\nmatch the new peer and frees it with call_rcu(). If current_key points\nat such a key, it is cleared to NULL.\n\nThe fast path reads sk_state only once on entry, so a softirq that got\ninto it while the socket was still established can update current_key\nafter that loop has already run. The update is inside the RCU read side,\nso it comes before the call_rcu() callback, and once the callback frees\nthe key, current_key is left pointing at freed memory.\n\nThe next transmission picks that pointer up in tcp_get_current_key().\ntcp_ao_transmit_skb() then reads the traffic key from the freed object,\nwhich is the use-after-free.\n\nWait for one grace period before unlinking, and only if a key is going\nto be removed. By the time tcp_connect() runs the socket is already in\nTCP_SYN_SENT, and TCP_AO_ESTABLISHED does not contain TCPF_SYN_SENT, so\na softirq entering after the wait cannot reach the fast path, and the\nones already in it have finished. The existing NULL handling in the loop\nis then enough."
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