Answer in brief
CVE-2026-5590 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability in net: ip/tcp: Null pointer dereference can be triggered by a race condition. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps zephyrproject-rtos/Zephyr (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 6.4. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps zephyrproject-rtos/Zephyr (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| zephyrproject-rtos/Zephyrgeneric | >=* <4.3.1 | 4.3.1 |
Published upstream
Apr 5, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 15, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jul 8, 2026
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.
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