{"id":7468,"date":"2026-09-04T18:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-74478"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:49:34","slug":"cve-2026-74478","status":"publish","type":"vuln","link":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-74478","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-74478 [CRITICAL] &#8211; In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\num: vector: fix use-a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>um: vector: fix use-after-free in vector_mmsg_rx()<\/p>\n<p>When vector_mmsg_rx() discards a packet whose overlay header fails<br \/>\nverify_header(), it frees the skb and continues the loop:<\/p>\n<p>\tif (header_check estats.rx_encaps_errors++;<br \/>\n\t\tcontinue;<br \/>\n\t}<\/p>\n<p>The normal and short-packet paths fall through to the bottom of the<br \/>\nloop body, which clears the consumed slot and advances the cursors:<\/p>\n<p>\t(*skbuff_vector) = NULL;<br \/>\n\tmmsg_vector++;<br \/>\n\tskbuff_vector++;<\/p>\n<p>The verify_header() &lt; 0 path skips that via continue, so the freed skb<br \/>\nis left in skbuff_vector[] and the cursors do not advance. The next<br \/>\niteration reads the same slot, gets the freed skb, and frees it again,<br \/>\nproducing a refcount underflow \/ use-after-free in the RX path.<\/p>\n<p>Discard the slot the same way the other paths do before continuing.<\/p>\n<p>Only transports whose verify_header() can return negative are affected:<br \/>\nGRE and L2TPv3 do so on a cookie\/session-id mismatch (raw\/tap do not),<br \/>\nso any peer on such a transport can trigger it without authentication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>um: vector: fix use-after-free in vector_mmsg_rx()<\/p>\n<p>When vector_mmsg_rx() discards a packet whose overlay header fails<br \/>\nverify_heade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7468","vuln","type-vuln","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln\/7468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/vuln"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}