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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2026-5590 EUVD-2026-19028

net: ip/tcp: Null pointer dereference can be triggered by a race condition

Published Apr 5, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by zephyr

Description

A race condition during TCP connection teardown can cause tcp_recv() to operate on a connection that has already been released. If tcp_conn_search() returns NULL while processing a SYN packet, a NULL pointer derived from stale context data is passed to tcp_backlog_is_full() and dereferenced without validation, leading to a crash.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr — —

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