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High CVSS 7.5

CVE-2026-68379

NVD analysis in progress

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. This prevents a memory leak of tcp_tw_bucket structures.

What this means

Exposure
Exploitable remotely over the network, without authentication and with no action from the victim.
Impact
An attacker can take the service offline.
Likelihood
Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.

What to doFold into the next patch cycle. Start with the instances exposed to the internet.

Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.

Published
10 August 2026
CVSS
7.5 (v3.1) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.6% probability of exploitation within 30 days · above 46% of all CVEs
Sources
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