# 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-2026-74492"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:21.365Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:49.918Z"
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-2026-74492"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74492.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74492"
title: "netfilter: ipset: do not update comments from kernel-side hash adds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ipset: do not update comments from kernel-side hash adds\n\nmtype_resize() copies comment pointers with memcpy(), not the comment\nobjects themselves. During the window after an entry has been copied but\nbefore the table swap and backlog replay, the old table is still\npublished for packet-side updates while the replacement-table entry\nalready holds the same ip_set_comment_rcu pointer.\n\nIf xt_SET --add-set ... --exist hits that old entry in this window,\nmtype_add() calls ip_set_init_comment() even though packet-side adds\ncarry no comment payload. That call frees the shared comment through the\nold entry, so the replacement-table entry now holds a stale pointer.\nWhen the queued add is replayed on the new table, mtype_add() calls\nip_set_init_comment() again and strlen() dereferences the stale pointer.\n\nFix this in mtype_add() by skipping ip_set_init_comment() when\next-\u003etarget marks a packet-side add. Userspace adds still update\ncomments, while packet-side adds can no longer free comment storage\nshared with a resize copy."
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