# 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-2026-74379"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:57.024Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:18:16.387Z"
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-2026-74379"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74379.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74379"
title: "dax/kmem: account for partial discontiguous resource upon removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndax/kmem: account for partial discontiguous resource upon removal\n\nWhen dev_dax_kmem_probe() partially succeeds (at least one range is\nmapped) but a subsequent range fails request_mem_region() or\nadd_memory_driver_managed(), the probe silently continues, ultimately\nreturning success, but with the corresponding range resource NULL'ed out.\n\ndev_dax_kmem_remove() iterates over all dax_device ranges regardless of if\nthe underlying resource exists.  When remove_memory() is called later, it\nreturns 0 because the memory was never added which causes\ndev_dax_kmem_remove() to incorrectly assume the (nonexistent) resource can\nbe removed and attempts cleanup on a NULL pointer.\n\nFix this by skipping these ranges altogether, noting that these cases are\nconsidered success, such that the cleanup is still reached when all\nactually-added ranges are successfully removed."
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