# 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-2026-74486"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:17.609Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:47:25.566Z"
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-2026-74486"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74486.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74486"
title: "binfmt_misc: use exe_file_deny_write_access() for the interpreter clone"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbinfmt_misc: use exe_file_deny_write_access() for the interpreter clone\n\nFor MISC_FMT_OPEN_FILE entries load_misc_binary() clones the\nregistered interpreter file and denies write access to the clone via\nplain deny_write_access(). The clone is installed as\nbprm-\u003einterpreter and later released by the exec machinery through\nexe_file_allow_write_access() which skips the i_writecount increment\nfor files with FMODE_FSNOTIFY_HSM set.\n\nThe deny and allow side can therefore come to different conclusions\nwhen pre-content watches are in play: if a pre-content watch is added\nto the interpreter after registration every subsequent exec through\nthat entry takes a write denial on the clone that is never paired\nwith a write allowance, driving the interpreter inode's i_writecount\nfurther down with each exec and leaving the interpreter unwritable\neven after the entry and all its users are gone.\n\nTake the write denial via exe_file_deny_write_access() so both sides\nof the pairing base their decision on the same file mode, and\npropagate failure instead of silently ignoring it: an interpreter\nthat is concurrently open for writing now fails the exec with\nETXTBSY, exactly like an interpreter freshly opened via open_exec()\nwould."
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