# 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-2026-74668"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:39.583Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:08.423Z"
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-2026-74668"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74668.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74668"
title: "packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npacket: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path\n\ntpacket_snd() reads dev-\u003ehard_header_len independently for skb\nallocation and header construction in tpacket_fill_skb(). Concurrent\nnetdevice reconfiguration can therefore make the reserved headroom\nsmaller than the amount later pushed, or make copylen - hard_header_len\nnegative.\n\nSnapshot hard_header_len once before processing ring frames and use it\nfor the frame limit, headroom allocation, copy length, and skb\nconstruction. Pass the snapshot to tpacket_fill_skb().\n\nThe separate SOCK_DGRAM consistency problem between hard_header_len and\nheader_ops-\u003ecreate is not addressed here."
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