CVE-2026-74464 PUBLISHED

net: openvswitch: fix skb leak on flow key update failure during ct

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 15.08.2026 Updated: 15.08.2026

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

net: openvswitch: fix skb leak on flow key update failure during ct

ovs_ct_execute() always steals or frees the skb on failure while ovs_flow_key_update() does not. So, if it fails and we return right away, the skb ends up leaked.

Fix that by breaking instead and letting the common error handling code at the bottom of the loop to free the skb properly.

This is a very unlikely scenario as it requires the packet to become unparseable by applying a set of actions on a previously parseable skb, but should be fixed nevertheless.

Reported by Sashiko.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ec0d043d05e6e3c0c2fac5de922c800c027c6386 to 736e972f3f8a304158345223ac6e816166a467ce (excl.)
  • affected from ec0d043d05e6e3c0c2fac5de922c800c027c6386 to e84dfaac50aab45ad8c670da43e3aa1f97bd2a41 (excl.)
  • affected from ec0d043d05e6e3c0c2fac5de922c800c027c6386 to e0ba8eaef2a0d02a7a485e6a7157e47272b65cea (excl.)
  • affected from ec0d043d05e6e3c0c2fac5de922c800c027c6386 to 393f3c72600ab6721d732a0ab245bc896c5b28fc (excl.)
  • affected from ec0d043d05e6e3c0c2fac5de922c800c027c6386 to bc62e843bc48f933da765ce47079fd992e535794 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.151 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.103 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.44 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc6 to * (incl.)

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