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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74476"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:11.309Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:48.477Z"
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-2026-74476"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74476.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74476"
title: "veth: convert frag_list skbs before running XDP"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nveth: convert frag_list skbs before running XDP\n\nA frag_list skb can reach veth with data_len set but nr_frags zero.\nveth_convert_skb_to_xdp_buff() only converts skbs that are shared,\nlocked, have frags[], or do not have enough headroom. It later uses\nskb_is_nonlinear() to decide whether to set XDP_FLAGS_HAS_FRAGS and\nxdp_frags_size.\n\nThat exposes frag_list data to XDP as if it were stored in frags[], but\nfrags[] is empty. AF_XDP copy mode can then trust the bogus XDP fragment\nmetadata, walk an empty fragment entry, and crash in memcpy() from\n__xsk_rcv().\n\nRoute non-linear skbs through skb_pp_cow_data() before exposing them to\nXDP, and only advertise XDP frags when the resulting skb has frags[].\nskb_copy_bits() already handles frag_list input, and skb_pp_cow_data()\nbuilds frags[] output with skb_add_rx_frag(), which is the\nrepresentation XDP multi-buffer expects."
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