# 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-2026-74582"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-21T16:31:55.283Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:58.230Z"
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-2026-74582"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74582.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74582"
title: "packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npacket: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths\n\npacket_snd() reads dev-\u003ehard_header_len multiple times while allocating\nand constructing an skb. Device reconfiguration can change this value\nconcurrently, for example through bonding device type changes.\n\nFor SOCK_RAW, packet_snd() can save a larger value in reserve and later\nallocate headroom using a smaller value. Moving skb-\u003edata back by reserve\nthen places it before skb-\u003ehead, and the following copy from userspace can\nattempt an out-of-bounds write.\n\npacket_sendmsg_spkt() has the same issue because it calculates its\nreservation and header offset from separate reads before dropping the RCU\nread lock to allocate the skb.\n\nAdd LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX() for callers that already saved a header length.\nRead hard_header_len once in packet_snd() and use it for allocation and\nconstruction. In packet_sendmsg_spkt(), preserve the allocation-time value\nthrough the device lookup retry.\n\nThe separate SOCK_DGRAM consistency problem between hard_header_len and\nheader_ops-\u003ecreate is not addressed here."
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