CVE-2026-74401 (GCVE-0-2026-74401)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:59 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:46
VLAI
Title
dlm: fix add msg handle in send_queue ordered
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dlm: fix add msg handle in send_queue ordered In a benchmark scenario triggering a lot of requests that triggers a lot of DLM messages on the network it can be that the mh->seq is not ordered according the oldest seq number. This ordering is required by dlm_receive_ack as "before(mh->seq, seq)" will stop to check for older sequence numbers that are ordered in the tail of "node->send_queue". The side effects of not having it correct ordered regarding "before(mh->seq, seq)" are refcounting issues and use-after free. I only was able to reproduce this issue in a experimental DLM branch and a user space DLM benchmark that uses io_uring. After changing this I don't experienced any refcounting with the sending buffer issues anymore.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 489d8e559c6596eb08e16447d9830bc39afbe54e , < ae9e534e502a0f48c12baf83608c5de0ff0eab11 (git)
Affected: 489d8e559c6596eb08e16447d9830bc39afbe54e , < 6369619f1b665f12d8c99cc6ff733c64eb08b22e (git)
Affected: 489d8e559c6596eb08e16447d9830bc39afbe54e , < 712714f818d83373847874ab0f8e426be79296cf (git)
Affected: 489d8e559c6596eb08e16447d9830bc39afbe54e , < 4d45250b1d22960f86d83245be188b16e456218b (git)
Affected: 489d8e559c6596eb08e16447d9830bc39afbe54e , < d2248cb70c070f8f04762872772e155b59016f17 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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