# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74606"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:31:53.819Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-25T05:40:31.060Z"
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-2026-74606"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74606.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74606"
title: "eventfs: Fix use-after-free in eventfs_remove_rec()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\neventfs: Fix use-after-free in eventfs_remove_rec()\n\neventfs_remove_rec() recursively removes the child at the current loop\nposition. After the recursive call returns, list_for_each_entry() advances\nby reading list.next from the removed child.\n\nIf free_ei() drops the final reference, release_ei() reuses the list/rcu\nunion to queue an SRCU callback. The child may be freed before that read.\nThe eventfs_mutex serializes list updates, but it does not keep the removed\nchild alive or prevent the SRCU callback from running.\n\nUse list_for_each_entry_safe() to save the next sibling before recursively\nremoving the current child."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5dfb04100326f70e3b2d2872c2476ed20b804837","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b77581b25e213e83b79ce11eb30024e55ceeb3e9"},{"version":"43aa6f97c2d03a52c1ddb86768575fc84344bdbb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f161d7861a0bfdf10af6b738b3b57636204661fb"},{"version":"43aa6f97c2d03a52c1ddb86768575fc84344bdbb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5635211b44969f4816e29ec4d5f8665fb39535d0"},{"version":"43aa6f97c2d03a52c1ddb86768575fc84344bdbb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74bb1eaf72d185a78c879eb2678ea500f82f46a8"},{"version":"43aa6f97c2d03a52c1ddb86768575fc84344bdbb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd73b691702170d37d66f4b0278530cea8ed419a"},{"version":"5a43badefe0eccca0c26144c0a44b8d417ce8103","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.152"},{"version":"6.7.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.6.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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