# 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-2026-74659"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:32.926Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:32.926Z"
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-2026-74659"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74659.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74659"
title: "net: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire\n\nbr_mrp_alloc_test_skb() builds MRP test frames on an skb from\ndev_alloc_skb(), which does not clear the linear data area.  On the MRA\nring-role branch the sub-option TLV header is appended with\n\n\tsub_tlv = skb_put(skb, sizeof(*sub_tlv));\n\tsub_tlv-\u003etype = BR_MRP_SUB_TLV_HEADER_TEST_AUTO_MGR;\n\nso sub_tlv-\u003elength is never written, and the two trailing alignment bytes\nare appended with a bare skb_put() that does not clear them either.  The\nneighbouring oui and sub_opt regions are explicitly zeroed, so three\nuninitialised bytes are left in every MRA MRP_Test frame that goes out.\n\nPut the sub-option TLV header and the alignment padding in a single\nskb_put_zero(), which clears both.  The AUTO_MGR sub-TLV carries no\npayload, so the zeroed length field is already the value it should have."
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