# 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-2026-74408"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:16.701Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:43.633Z"
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-2026-74408"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74408.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74408"
title: "wifi: ath9k: fix OOB access from firmware tx status queue ID"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath9k: fix OOB access from firmware tx status queue ID\n\nath_tx_edma_tasklet() accesses sc-\u003etx.txq[ts.qid] where ts.qid is a\n4-bit hardware field (0-15), but the txq array only has\nATH9K_NUM_TX_QUEUES (10) entries. A qid \u003e= 10 causes an OOB array\naccess.\n\nAdd a bounds check on ts.qid before using it as an array index."
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