{"id":"CVE-2026-68379","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-68379","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:42:15.376Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: fix TIME_WAIT socket reference leak on PSP policy failure Release the TIME_WAIT socket reference and jump to discard_it upon PSP policy failure in both IPv4 and IPv6 receive paths.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: fix TIME_WAIT socket reference leak on PSP policy failure\n\nRelease the TIME_WAIT socket reference and jump to discard_it\nupon PSP policy failure in both IPv4 and IPv6 receive paths.\nThis prevents a memory leak of tcp_tw_bucket structures.","published":"2026-08-10T13:20:31.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-17T06:17:46.000Z","status":"Received","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00601,"percentile":0.48565,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.60%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c1931a81122c3cdc4c89448fe0442c69e21c0d5","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/374742a961becbbfc7fbfd1382d978a05e492741","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e666af5dcc905ba694745963174d232deb478c55","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68379","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}