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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98550" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:18.173Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:33.349Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98550" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98550.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98550" title: "tipc: reject invalid and unexpected GRP_ACK_MSG to prevent bc_ackers underflow" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: reject invalid and unexpected GRP_ACK_MSG to prevent bc_ackers underflow\n\nCommit 48a5fe38772b (\"tipc: fix bc_ackers underflow on duplicate\nGRP_ACK_MSG\") rejected duplicate/stale ACKs in tipc_group_proto_rcv()\nby returning early when less_eq(acked, m-\u003ebc_acked).\n\nHowever, that check remains incomplete in two ways:\n\n1. When grp-\u003ebc_ackers is zero (e.g. on a quiet group, when replicast\n ACKs were not requested, or after all expected members have already\n acknowledged), an unexpected GRP_ACK_MSG with acked \u003e m-\u003ebc_acked\n passes less_eq() and unconditionally decrements grp-\u003ebc_ackers.\n Because bc_ackers is a u16, this wraps to 65535, causing\n tipc_group_bc_cong() to permanently report congestion and blocking\n all future group broadcasts on the socket.\n\n2. During an active broadcast round (grp-\u003ebc_ackers \u003e 0), the sender\n transmits packet S and advances grp-\u003ebc_snd_nxt to S + 1. Receivers\n increment their expected counter to S + 1 upon consuming packet S,\n so the only valid ACK value for the current round is strictly\n acked == grp-\u003ebc_snd_nxt.\n\n However, tipc_group_update_bc_members() initializes each member's\n m-\u003ebc_acked to prev = grp-\u003ebc_snd_nxt - 1 (S - 1 before increment).\n This leaves a 2-sequence gap (S - 1 to S + 1) in sequence space.\n An incoming ACK is therefore neither rejected as duplicate nor\n prevented from decrementing grp-\u003ebc_ackers if an unexpected or stale\n value (such as S) is received. A member sending acked = S followed\n by acked = S + 1 could decrement grp-\u003ebc_ackers twice in the same\n round, prematurely clearing bc_ackers or underflowing it.\n\nFix this by:\n- Dropping GRP_ACK_MSG immediately if grp-\u003ebc_ackers is zero.\n- Requiring acked == grp-\u003ebc_snd_nxt and rejecting duplicates where\n m-\u003ebc_acked == acked. Because replicast broadcast rounds are strictly\n sequential, only grp-\u003ebc_snd_nxt can be acknowledged, and each member\n can acknowledge at most once per round.\n\nNote that a related pre-existing issue in tipc_group_delete_member()\n(where grp-\u003ebc_ackers decrementing to zero upon member departure does\nnot restore *grp-\u003eopen or trigger a socket wakeup) will be addressed\nin a separate patch." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2f487712b89376fce267223bbb0db93d393d4b09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"edc6593c442278fceff0120e8cc58bc592168c35"},{"version":"2f487712b89376fce267223bbb0db93d393d4b09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b94a90651e1fa573c6ac6a5a6b269d5874df2c0"},{"version":"2f487712b89376fce267223bbb0db93d393d4b09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"507a27435b2bb1f22e3a3674f6a6553eb815021b"},{"version":"2f487712b89376fce267223bbb0db93d393d4b09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80a9ccfc24d3776ef6753a57315e726475fac7d7"},{"version":"2f487712b89376fce267223bbb0db93d393d4b09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"478fb08d0c2a53002a721d22b8d6681ec971d90f"},{"version":"2f487712b89376fce267223bbb0db93d393d4b09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12cc3a1eac5a2a06b67a7b85f0f48ff241a94d1b"},{"version":"2f487712b89376fce267223bbb0db93d393d4b09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0e517961f09b9f60d338d1ea4e17aacdbf206f0"},{"version":"2f487712b89376fce267223bbb0db93d393d4b09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99cc2a62e07a44a22254d7beca9ef1f8ad886d0d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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