CVE-2026-74406

CVE-2026-74406

Critical · published August 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
9.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in vxlan_gro_prepare_receive().

udp_tunnel_sock_release() could set sk->sk_user_data to NULL

while vxlan_gro_prepare_receive() is running.

Let's check if rcu_dereference_sk_user_data() is NULL after

skb_gro_remcsum_init().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.8 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00491 · 41.3th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:22Z
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:59Z
    vxlan: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in vxlan_gro_prepare_receive().
    cvelistv5