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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74256" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:34.956Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:28.085Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74256" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74256.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74256" title: "bpf, sockmap: fix integer overflow in bpf_msg_pop_data() bounds check" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, sockmap: fix integer overflow in bpf_msg_pop_data() bounds check\n\nstart and len are u32, so\n\n\tu64 last = start + len;\n\nevaluates start + len in 32-bit and wraps before storing it in last.\nThe bounds check\n\n\tif (start \u003e= offset + l || last \u003e msg-\u003esg.size)\n\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n\ncan then be passed with an out-of-range start/len, after which the pop\nloop runs off the end of the scatterlist and sk_msg_shift_left() calls\nput_page() on the empty msg-\u003esg.end slot:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\n RIP: 0010:sk_msg_shift_left net/core/filter.c:2957 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:____bpf_msg_pop_data net/core/filter.c:3103 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:bpf_msg_pop_data+0x753/0x1a10 net/core/filter.c:2984\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n bpf_prog_4cc92c278f4d5d56+0x1b1/0x1e8\n bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu+0x107/0x320 include/linux/filter.h:746\n sk_psock_msg_verdict+0x357/0x7f0 net/core/skmsg.c:934\n tcp_bpf_send_verdict net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c:420 [inline]\n tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x766/0x1ae0 net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c:583\n __sock_sendmsg+0x153/0x1c0 net/socket.c:802\n __sys_sendto+0x326/0x430 net/socket.c:2265\n __x64_sys_sendto+0xe3/0x100 net/socket.c:2268\n do_syscall_64+0x14c/0x480\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nWiden the addition with a (u64) cast so the bound is evaluated in\n64-bit and a len near U32_MAX no longer wraps below msg-\u003esg.size.\n\nWhile here, change pop from int to u32. It counts bytes against the\nunsigned scatterlist lengths and can never be negative, so the signed\ntype only invites sign-confusion in the pop loop." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7246d8ed4dcce23f7509949a77be15fa9f0e3d28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ef44ed6fb0c1db01cfcc3de432a33e719713eb5"},{"version":"7246d8ed4dcce23f7509949a77be15fa9f0e3d28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d693c5ed67dabe1ccbf8dcea93075bdc9ffd4ca0"},{"version":"7246d8ed4dcce23f7509949a77be15fa9f0e3d28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba5cc05dae8fce237d191c7ea96b1107a791e548"},{"version":"7246d8ed4dcce23f7509949a77be15fa9f0e3d28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c05a0ec1cdced622a1a0c7d85679fe02f31033ec"},{"version":"7246d8ed4dcce23f7509949a77be15fa9f0e3d28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17eb9832a10db2f7a80cb429ca2bc5038445a943"},{"version":"7246d8ed4dcce23f7509949a77be15fa9f0e3d28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fe09dd288722f1c749b7506c0b3e7841a7d85027"},{"version":"7246d8ed4dcce23f7509949a77be15fa9f0e3d28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e09f7bd7273928b4089e6b71f8e992f2b356ca1b"},{"version":"7246d8ed4dcce23f7509949a77be15fa9f0e3d28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a48802fb2cd2d1e23651989f8ff4d15e9d5dad54"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.0"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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