{"id":"CVE-2026-74620","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_gact, act_police: range check the fallback control action\n\ntcf_action_check_ctrlact() range checks the primary control action:\n\n\tif (!opcode)\n\t\tret = act…","summary":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_gact, act_police: range check the fallback control action\n\ntcf_action_check_ctrlact() range checks the primary control action:\n\n\tif (!opcode)\n\t\tret = act…","severity":"medium","published":"2026-08-22","updated":"2026-10-14","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-14T13:10:00.187","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74620","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e8df8c9190335475a3b64a159d3efd8cdd1cb73","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5344e01179baa37547ab29fd7b8614f83faa190c","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f038affdacaffedf6a85a06cf59ec0a852d36a7","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bcb8839aa2d686964a4154650afc4db91e1c514","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/725efc2ab4a40affc4e285a2dc4896d103948a6c","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/883b56ae58fe657d8497806c7059646e9ba6dbd0","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92f00f1d4d204a428b38e26fce3baee144b6955d","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efa58aeb6a99028b1fbc3ab2f31ba3a881211ad4","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-74620.json"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-74620"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2521482"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74620"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74620"},{"url":"https://kernelcve.org/list/?q=CVE-2026-74620"},{"url":"https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026082219-CVE-2026-74620-9726@gregkh/T"}],"tags":["nvd","csaf","vex","red-hat"],"epss":0.00177,"epssPercentile":0.07159,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-14T13:30:58.518Z","vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","affected":["enterprise_linux 10","enterprise_linux 6","enterprise_linux 8","enterprise_linux 9"],"cvss":5.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cvssSource":"vendor","cwe":["CWE-20"],"slug":"CVE-2026-74620","body":"## Overview\n\nIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_gact, act_police: range check the fallback control action\n\ntcf_action_check_ctrlact() range checks the primary control action:\n\n\tif (!opcode)\n\t\tret = action > TC_ACT_VALUE_MAX ? -EINVAL : 0;\n\nTC_ACT_VALUE_MAX is TC_ACT_TRAP, so kernel-internal verdicts above it\ncannot be set that way. But act_gact and act_police each carry a second,\nindependent control action supplied by user space that never reaches that\nhelper - TCA_GACT_PROB.paction and TCA_POLICE_RESULT. Both only reject\nTC_ACT_GOTO_CHAIN, so any other value is stored verbatim and returned\nverbatim from the action.\n\nIn particular user space can store TC_ACT_CONSUMED, which is\nTC_ACT_VALUE_MAX + 1 and is deliberately not part of the UAPI value\nrange. That verdict tells every caller the action took ownership of the\nskb, so nobody frees it: sch_handle_ingress(), sch_handle_egress() and\ntcf_qevent_handle() all deliberately skip the free for it. The result is\none leaked sk_buff plus its data buffer per packet traversing the filter,\nunbounded, for all traffic on the chain including kernel-generated\npackets.\n\nBoth are trivially deterministic. act_gact clamps tcfg_pval to >= 1, so\nwith pval = 1 gact_determ() returns the fallback for every packet.\nact_police has no mandatory rate, so rate = 0 leaves tcfp_mtu = ~0 and\ntcf_police_mtu_check() always passes.\n\nTC_ACT_CONSUMED was added by commit 720f22fed81b (\"net: sched: refactor\nreinsert action\"), after both goto-chain guards were written:\ncommit 9469f375ab09 (\"net/sched: act_gact: disallow 'goto chain' on\nfallback control action\") and\ncommit c08f5ed5d625 (\"net/sched: act_police: disallow 'goto chain' on\nfallback control action\"). Neither guard was widened when the new\nverdict appeared.\n\nFactor the existing range test out of tcf_action_check_ctrlact() as\ntcf_action_valid() and apply it to both fallbacks. The helper cannot call\ntcf_action_check_ctrlact() directly because that also allocates a\ngoto_chain, which is exactly what these two sites must not do.\n\nReproduced on v7.2-rc6: kmemleak reports one leaked 232-byte\nskbuff_head_cache object plus its 704-byte data buffer per packet. With\nthis patch both configurations are rejected with -EINVAL and kmemleak\nreports none.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.\n\n## Vendor advisories\n\n- **Red Hat VEX** · Moderate · affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · no fix planned: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · updated 2026-10-26 · [vex](https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-74620.json)","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":30,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":229420,"id":"CVE-2026-74620","ts":1793019754836,"field":"cvss","old":null,"new":"5.5"},{"seq":229419,"id":"CVE-2026-74620","ts":1793019754836,"field":"severity","old":"none","new":"medium"}]}