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CVE-2026-74704

Updated on 22 Aug 2026

Severity

8.2 High severity

Details

CVSS score
8.2
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

net/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter

The sch_cake ACK filter parses packets to find the TCP header and filter duplicated ACKs if the flow is backlogged. The parsing code contains a WARN_ON(1) which can be triggered by a malformed IP header in certain cases. Depending on the system configuration, this leads either to either spamming dmesg with warnings, or a panic if panic_on_warn is set.

The code already correctly skips the offending packet in the branch that triggers the warning, so the WARN_ON itself doesn’t really serve any purpose. So just drop it altogether to avoid the inconvenient side effects.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+4 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 12 Planned —
Debian 13 Released
15 kernels
  • 6.12.85-1
  • 6.12.86-1
  • 6.12.88-1
  • 6.12.74-2
  • 6.12.73-1
  • 6.12.63-1
  • 6.12.69-1
  • 6.12.74-1
  • 6.12.90-1
  • 6.12.90-2
  • 6.12.94-1
  • 6.12.95-1
  • 6.12.96-1
  • 6.12.100-1
  • 6.12.101-1
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 Planned —