# 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-2026-74354"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:40.067Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:34.866Z"
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-2026-74354"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74354.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74354"
title: "bpf: Take mmap_lock in zap_pages()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Take mmap_lock in zap_pages()\n\nzap_vma_range() requires the owning mm's mmap_lock to be held.\n\nTaking mmap_read_lock under arena-\u003elock would AB-BA against\narena_vm_close() and arena_map_mmap(), both of which run with\nmmap_write_lock held and then acquire arena-\u003elock. Instead drop\narena-\u003elock, mmget_not_zero() the vma's mm, take mmap_read_lock, and\nre-resolve the vma via find_vma() since it may have been unmapped or\nreplaced while waiting.\n\nTrack processed vmls with a per-call generation in vml-\u003ezap_gen and\nserialize zap_pages() callers with a new arena-\u003ezap_mutex so\nconcurrent callers on different uaddr ranges do not mark each other's\nvmls processed before the zap is done."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36b1d997866f6083d33934983aa2ce0a184ed642"},{"version":"317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80b89d0226a05e8b67969de99c31b51fcd54f76a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"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"}]

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