# 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-2026-74657"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:31.458Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-27T12:39:57.259Z"
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-2026-74657"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74657.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74657"
title: "ipv4: Fix fib_nlmsg_size() for RTA_VIA nexthops"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: Fix fib_nlmsg_size() for RTA_VIA nexthops\n\nfib_nlmsg_size() still estimates nexthop space as if every gateway is\nencoded as an IPv4 RTA_GATEWAY attribute. IPv4 routes can also carry an\nIPv6 gateway, which fib_nexthop_info() dumps as RTA_VIA.\n\nAs a result, route notifications can allocate an skb that is too small.\nfib_dump_info() then fails with -EMSGSIZE and rtmsg_fib() hits the\nWARN_ON() that marks such failures as a fib_nlmsg_size() bug. With\npanic_on_warn set, this becomes a kernel panic.\n\nMirror the actual nexthop dump layout in fib_nlmsg_size(): account for\nIPv6 nexthop gateways dumped as RTA_VIA, for the no-header rtnexthop\nlayout used inside RTA_MULTIPATH, and for RTA_FLOW only when it is\nactually present."
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