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CVE-2026-52974

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tls: fix strparser anchor skb leak on offload RX setup failure When tls_set_device_offload_rx() fails at tls_dev_add(), the error path calls tls_sw_free_resources_rx() to clean up the SW context that was initialized by tls_set_sw_offload(). This function calls tls_sw_release_resources_rx() (which stops the strparser via tls_strp_stop()) and tls_sw_free_ctx_rx() (which kfrees the context), but never frees the anchor skb that was allocated by alloc_skb(0) in tls_strp_init(). Note that tls_sw_free_resources_rx() is exclusively used for this "failed to start offload" code path, there's no other caller. The leak did not exist before commit 84c61fe1a75b ("tls: rx: do not use the standard strparser"), because the standard strparser doesn't try to pre-allocate an skb. The normal close path in tls_sk_proto_close() handles cleanup by calling tls_sw_strparser_done() (which calls tls_strp_done()) after dropping the socket lock, because tls_strp_done() does cancel_work_sync() and the strparser work handler takes the socket lock.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-52974
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-24 16:28 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-24 16:28 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 < 0c9f399b37ce22a5ed94cc51f03ed07ac7f38e32, 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 < 688f12aa44511dd57e448eb670075c6302ad1dc1, 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 < 3c405dfa9619e506e75b8e41f8b29a5b99731877, 84c61fe1a75b4255df1e1e7c054c9e6d048da417 < 9c54e76f8d6eb11735918777ef0e0509e089557d …
Linux Linux 6.0, 0 < 6.0, 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.*, 6.6.141 ≤ 6.6.* …
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