# 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-2026-74551"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:58.237Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:38:47.362Z"
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-2026-74551"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74551.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74551"
title: "hwmon: (nzxt-smart2) DMA-align output buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwmon: (nzxt-smart2) DMA-align output buffer\n\nSashiko reports:\n\nWhen send_output_report() calls hid_hw_output_report(), the underlying USB\nHID core calls usb_interrupt_msg() which maps this buffer directly for DMA.\n\nWhen the DMA mapping flushes or invalidates the cacheline, it will corrupt\nthe adjacent variables (mutex, update_interval) that were modified\nconcurrently by the CPU. This causes memory corruption due to cacheline\nsharing on non-coherent CPU architectures (such as ARM or MIPS). The DMA\nAPI debugging tool (CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG) will trigger runtime warnings\nfor this violation.\n\nAny operation that triggers send_output_report() (like setting a fan speed\nor updating the interval) causes the USB DMA mapping. On systems with\nnon-coherent caches, this structural bug causes immediate and deterministic\nmemory corruption.\n\nAlign the output buffer to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to fix the problem."
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