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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2026

l2tp: fix tunnel and session refcount leak on seq_file release

CVE-2026-74735

Description

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.

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