CVE-2026-80588

Updated on 26 Aug 2026

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

mptcp: reclaim forward-allocated memory on RX path errors

After commit 9db5b3cec4ec (“mptcp: borrow forward memory from subflow”), errors in the receive path prior to queueing skbs into the receive queue do not trigger forward-allocated memory reclaiming.

Prevent forward memory from growing unboundedly in pathological drop scenarios by explicitly reclaiming memory when skbs are dropped.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)

Fixes