# 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-2026-74399"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:10.791Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:18:39.008Z"
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-2026-74399"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74399.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74399"
title: "evm: terminate and bound the evm_xattrs read buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nevm: terminate and bound the evm_xattrs read buffer\n\nevm_read_xattrs() allocates size + 1 bytes, fills them from the list of\nenabled xattrs, and then passes strlen(temp) to\nsimple_read_from_buffer(). When no configured xattrs are enabled, the\nfill loop stores nothing and temp[0] remains uninitialized, so strlen()\nreads beyond initialized memory.\n\nExplicitly terminate the buffer after allocation, use snprintf() for\neach formatted line, and pass the accumulated length, without risk of\ntruncation, to simple_read_from_buffer()."
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