# 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-2026-74566"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:28:07.628Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:39:06.890Z"
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-2026-74566"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74566.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74566"
title: "keys: make keyring key-chunk byte order agree with keyring_diff_objects()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkeys: make keyring key-chunk byte order agree with keyring_diff_objects()\n\nkeyring_get_key_chunk() loads description bytes into the index chunk low\naddress first, while keyring_diff_objects() numbers the first differing\nbit from the low end and folds the absolute byte index into the level\nwithout removing the inline-prefix offset the level already carries.\nThe two disagree on byte order and bit position, so the array can be\ntold two keys first differ at a bit that does not differ in the chunk\nthe walker uses, letting crafted descriptions collide into one node.\n\nLoad the chunk in the order keyring_diff_objects() assumes and drop the\ninline-prefix length when folding the byte index into the level.  This\nonly changes the in-memory ordering used to place keys within a keyring;\nadd, search and read of non-colliding keys are unaffected."
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