# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74327"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:21.665Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:17:17.979Z"
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-2026-74327"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74327.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74327"
title: "vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages()\n\nfind_vm_area() can return NULL if the given address is not a valid vmalloc\narea.  Check the return value before dereferencing it to avoid a kernel\ncrash."
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