CVE-2026-64024

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-64024

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

tcp: fix stale per-CPU tcp_tw_isn leak enabling ISN prediction

Blamed commit moved the TIME_WAIT-derived ISN from the skb control

block to a per-CPU variable, assuming the value would always be consumed

by tcp_conn_request() for the same packet that wrote it. That assumption

is violated by multiple drop paths between the producer

(__this_cpu_write(tcp_tw_isn, isn) in tcp_v{4,6}_rcv()) and the consumer

(tcp_conn_request()):

- min_ttl / min_hopcount check

- xfrm policy check

- tcp_inbound_hash() MD5/AO mismatch

- tcp_filter() eBPF/SO_ATTACH_FILTER drop

- th->syn && th->fin discard in tcp_rcv_state_process() TCP_LISTEN

- psp_sk_rx_policy_check() in tcp_v{4,6}_do_rcv()

- tcp_checksum_complete() in tcp_v{4,6}_do_rcv()

- tcp_v{4,6}_cookie_check() returning NULL

When a packet is dropped on any of these paths, tcp_tw_isn is left set.

The next SYN processed on the same CPU then consumes the non zero value in

tcp_conn_request(), receiving a potentially predictable ISN.

This patch moves back tcp_tw_isn to skb->cb[], getting rid of the per-cpu

variable.

Note that tcp_v{4,6}_fill_cb() do not set it.

Very litle impact on overall code size/complexity:

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux.new

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/1 up/down: 8/-15 (-7)

Function old new delta

tcp_v6_rcv 3038 3042 +4

tcp_v4_rcv 3035 3039 +4

tcp_conn_request 2938 2923 -15

Total: Before=24436060, After=24436053, chg -0.00% (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References