# 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-2026-74472"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:08.759Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:37:23.182Z"
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-2026-74472"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74472.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74472"
title: "ublk: reset kernel-owned dev_info fields in ublk_ctrl_add_dev()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nublk: reset kernel-owned dev_info fields in ublk_ctrl_add_dev()\n\nublk_ctrl_add_dev() memcpy()s the userspace ublksrv_ctrl_dev_info into\nub-\u003edev_info and then fixes up the fields the driver owns, but misses\n-\u003estate and -\u003eublksrv_pid.\n\nA device added with -\u003estate = UBLK_S_DEV_LIVE passes the\n\"-\u003estate != UBLK_S_DEV_DEAD\" test that ublk_stop_dev_unlocked() uses as its\nproxy for \"a disk is attached\", while -\u003eub_disk is still NULL, so DEL_DEV\nright after ADD_DEV oopses in del_gendisk().  UBLK_S_DEV_QUIESCED plus\nUBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY dies one step earlier, in ublk_force_abort_dev().  A\npoisoned -\u003estate also gets START_USER_RECOVERY and the char device\nread/write path onto a device that was never started, and wedges START_DEV\nat -EEXIST.  A poisoned -\u003eublksrv_pid just makes GET_DEV_INFO report an\nunrelated task as the ublk server.\n\nReset both after the memcpy(), as ublk_detach_disk() does.  Userspace only\never reads these back, so correcting them silently breaks nothing.\n\nADD_DEV has copied -\u003estate in unsanitized since ublk was merged, but back\nthen it was harmless: the gendisk was allocated during ADD_DEV, and both\nteardown and the START_DEV -EEXIST check keyed off disk_live() rather than\n-\u003estate.  The oops became reachable once the disk allocation moved to\nSTART_DEV and those checks switched to -\u003estate."
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