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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74384" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:00.445Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:36.724Z" 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-2026-74384" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74384.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74384" title: "nvme-multipath: fix flex array size in struct nvme_ns_head" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme-multipath: fix flex array size in struct nvme_ns_head\n\nstruct nvme_ns_head contains a flexible array member, current_path[],\nwhich is indexed using the NUMA node ID:\nhead-\u003ecurrent_path[numa_node_id()]\n\nThe structure is currently allocated as:\nsize = sizeof(struct nvme_ns_head) +\n (num_possible_nodes() * sizeof(struct nvme_ns *));\nhead = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);\n\nThis allocation assumes that NUMA node IDs are sequential and densely\npacked from 0 .. num_possible_nodes() - 1. While this assumption holds\non many systems, it is not always true on some architectures such as\npowerpc.\n\nOn some powerpc systems, NUMA node IDs can be sparse. For example:\nNUMA:\n NUMA node(s): 6\n NUMA node0 CPU(s): 80-159\n NUMA node8 CPU(s): 0-79\n NUMA node252 CPU(s):\n NUMA node253 CPU(s):\n NUMA node254 CPU(s):\n NUMA node255 CPU(s):\n\nThat is, the possible/online NUMA node IDs are: 0, 8, 252, 253, 254, 255\nIn this case: num_possible_nodes() = 6\n\nSo memory is allocated for only 6 entries in current_path[]. However,\nthe array is later indexed using the actual NUMA node ID. As a result,\naccesses such as:\nhead-\u003ecurrent_path[8] or\nhead-\u003ecurrent_path[252]\ngoes out of bounds, leading to the following KASAN splat:\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nvme_mpath_revalidate_paths+0x22c/0x290 [nvme_core]\nWrite of size 8 at addr c00020003bda35b8 by task kworker/u641:2/1997\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1997 Comm: kworker/u641:2 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc5-dirty #14 PREEMPT(lazy)\nHardware name: 8335-GTH POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:skiboot-v6.5.3-35-g1851b2a06 PowerNV\nWorkqueue: async async_run_entry_fn\nCall Trace:\n[c000200037fa7510] [c0000000021c23d4] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xdc (unreliable)\n[c000200037fa7540] [c0000000009fda90] print_report+0x22c/0x67c\n[c000200037fa7630] [c0000000009fd508] kasan_report+0x108/0x220\n[c000200037fa7740] [c0000000009fff48] __asan_store8+0xe8/0x120\n[c000200037fa7760] [c008000018e76474] nvme_mpath_revalidate_paths+0x22c/0x290 [nvme_core]\n[c000200037fa7800] [c008000018e6556c] nvme_update_ns_info+0x4a4/0x5e0 [nvme_core]\n[c000200037fa7a50] [c008000018e66270] nvme_alloc_ns+0x6d8/0x1a70 [nvme_core]\n[c000200037fa7c20] [c008000018e679fc] nvme_scan_ns+0x3f4/0x630 [nvme_core]\n[c000200037fa7d10] [c00000000031f22c] async_run_entry_fn+0x9c/0x3a0\n[c000200037fa7db0] [c0000000002fa544] process_one_work+0x414/0xa10\n[c000200037fa7ec0] [c0000000002fbf00] worker_thread+0x320/0x640\n[c000200037fa7f80] [c00000000030d0f8] kthread+0x278/0x290\n[c000200037fa7fe0] [c00000000000ded8] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18\n\nAllocated by task 1997 on cpu 1 at 35.928317s:\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at c00020003bda3000\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-rnd-15-2k of size 2048\nThe buggy address is located 16 bytes to the right of\n allocated 1448-byte region [c00020003bda3000, c00020003bda35a8)\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n c00020003bda3480: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n c00020003bda3500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n\u003ec00020003bda3580: 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n ^\n c00020003bda3600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n c00020003bda3680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n==================================================================\n\nFix this by allocating the flexible array using nr_node_ids instead\nof num_possible_nodes(). Since nr_node_ids represents the maximum\npossible NUMA node IDs, indexing current_path[] using numa_node_id()\nbecomes safe even on systems with sparse node IDs." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e7b167e65610dfa7564d449474f4b477f9d4c1c"},{"version":"f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"316b5f1168264844aa125959de1d6da2b1905795"},{"version":"f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d4131b5c9823c7d2c86389898ad1b466af7df5e"},{"version":"f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ffdd11bd6c961b46b3689850ff6c5d7af5c5fe5"},{"version":"f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bde4d6eb53f7d3cdae7e62c9ee84345fdd6e70a6"},{"version":"f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"140d6fff4ed266592492a23444043842b4af7a62"},{"version":"f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7173a741fed73de6247384056fe92e582ba12507"},{"version":"f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"001e57554de81aa79c25c18fd53911d8a415c304"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"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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