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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 22, 2026

CVE-2026-74696

CVE-2026-74696

Description

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

tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration

A listener's TCP_FASTOPEN max_qlen stops being accurate and lets through far more pending Fast Open requests than it was configured for.

This only shows up with SO_REUSEPORT listener migration, where closing a listener hands its still-pending TFO children over to a surviving one.

fastopenq.qlen is charged in tcp_fastopen_create_child() when the child is created and uncharged in reqsk_fastopen_remove() when the handshake completes. The uncharge follows rsk_listener of the request the child points at, and inet_reqsk_clone() has repointed the child at a new request owned by the new listener, so the ++ and the -- land on two different sockets. The new listener's qlen drifts negative and its limit no longer binds.

Charge the new listener during migration, like reqsk_queue_migrated() already does for queue->young and queue->qlen.

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