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CVE-2026-74704

net/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter The sch_cake ACK filter parses packets to find the TCP header and filter duplicated ACKs if the flow is backlogged. The parsing code contains a WARN_ON(1) which can be triggered by a malformed IP header in certain cases. Depending on the system configuration, this leads either to either spamming dmesg with warnings, or a panic if panic_on_warn is set. The code already correctly skips the offending packet in the branch that triggers the warning, so the WARN_ON itself doesn't really serve any purpose. So just drop it altogether to avoid the inconvenient side effects.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 before c1693b7844a6c06d31a565e5a494948034dfd235; affected 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 before a4b52612004a5639c4bfc30ba93ba414b8326e2a; affected 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 before ae1b2f8e21a41e7c7e75511bea0c4ccc59ec1bd3; affected 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 before 0c4882bff34558d8d53fb04c3e96da5c327c7dc8; affected 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 before 2504a76e5c0694e14e15562730e1339f2d9f9458; affected 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 before cd2f1d9fe8a507c2dc86ad326fe221f121c47734; affected 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 before a1ae353d8355407c1bea971d1c1af5e7f242bb7d; affected 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 before 2a33516f9ef59ad11844d4fc152f889449b5daf3
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.19; unaffected 0 before 4.19; unaffected 5.10.265 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.216 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.183 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.152 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.104 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.45 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.9 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

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