CVE-2026-74735

CVE-2026-74735

published August 26, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

l2tp: fix tunnel and session refcount leak on seq_file release

In pppol2tp_proc_open() and l2tp_dfs_seq_open(), iteration state

(pd->tunnel and pd->session) is kept in seq_file private data to allow

iteration across multiple read() system calls.

However, if userspace closes /proc/net/pppol2tp or /sys/kernel/debug/l2tp/tunnels

before reading to end-of-file (EOF), any tunnel or session reference stored in

pd->tunnel / pd->session is left un-dropped when seq_file private data is freed.

Fix this by dropping any remaining pd->tunnel and pd->session references in

pppol2tp_proc_release() and l2tp_dfs_seq_release() when closing the file.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00176 · 6.8th percentile
Published
2026-08-26T19:16Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 AUG 06:52Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 26 AUG 14:36Z
    l2tp: fix tunnel and session refcount leak on seq_file release
    cvelistv5