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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74671" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:41.480Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:41.480Z" 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-2026-74671" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74671.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74671" title: "ima: fix out-of-bounds read in xattr_verify()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nima: fix out-of-bounds read in xattr_verify()\n\nThe digest-length check in xattr_verify() mixes int and size_t:\n\n\tif (xattr_len - sizeof(xattr_value-\u003etype) - hash_start \u003e=\n\t\t\tiint-\u003eima_hash-\u003elength)\n\nsizeof() yields size_t, so the usual arithmetic conversions promote\nthe whole left-hand side to unsigned 64-bit before the subtraction\nruns. For a truncated xattr this underflows instead of going negative:\na 1-byte IMA_XATTR_DIGEST_NG xattr (xattr_len == 1, hash_start == 1)\nturns \"1 - 1 - 1\" into SIZE_MAX, which is trivially \u003e= ima_hash-\u003elength.\nThe check then passes and the following memcmp() reads\niint-\u003eima_hash-\u003elength bytes starting past the end of the buffer\nvfs_getxattr_alloc() allocated for it.\n\nNothing upstream clamps xattr_len back into a safe range first:\nima_get_hash_algo() only special-cases xattr_len \u003c 2 to pick a default\nalgorithm, and evm_verifyxattr() returns INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN rather than\nfailing when no HMAC key is loaded, so a truncated security.ima value\nreaches the length check as-is.\n\nRewrite the comparison so every operand stays a signed int and no\nimplicit conversion to size_t can occur." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d823b5f4557083d1dd92096f796a78a2b1b06d10"},{"version":"3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"caeb105c15ea2431fa8da7ecfa242d0c68272426"},{"version":"3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a784b4732ac7e51862b9b210c2d8b2ab9e83568c"},{"version":"3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6cb134707a2127d90a58d69dd818679cae8033c"},{"version":"3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e515b6c9aab452a4f0734bd7208e4e780e164ca"},{"version":"3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27f3924061592d0ef6b04e16f48754b6cb6adf27"},{"version":"3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd04114af0d451091f7b8cbd26d9e37d011e9131"},{"version":"3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ff232d31106f45ac87c3b64e1d35a0667777797"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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