# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74426"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:28.427Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:19:11.836Z"
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-2026-74426"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74426.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74426"
title: "afs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree()\n\nafs_alloc_sbi() uses kzalloc for memory allocation. And, if\nctx-\u003edyn_root is not null, as-\u003ecell and as-\u003evolume are null.\nIn trace_afs_get_tree() they are dereferenced.\n\nKASAN error message:\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 2 PID: 18478 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 5.10.246-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1\n04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:perf_trace_afs_get_tree+0x1d9/0x550\ninclude/trace/events/afs.h:1365\n\nCall Trace:\ntrace_afs_get_tree include/trace/events/afs.h:1365 [inline]\nafs_get_tree+0x922/0x1350 fs/afs/super.c:599\nvfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 fs/super.c:1572\ndo_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3011 [inline]\npath_mount+0x14a5/0x2220 fs/namespace.c:3341\ndo_mount fs/namespace.c:3354 [inline]\n__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3562 [inline]\n__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3539 [inline]\n__x64_sys_mount+0x283/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3539\n do_syscall_64+0x33/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller."
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