# 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-2026-74679"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:47.499Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:47.499Z"
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-2026-74679"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74679.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74679"
title: "usb: gadget: f_ncm: Use unsigned int for ndp_index"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_ncm: Use unsigned int for ndp_index\n\nThe variable ndp_index is declared as a signed integer, but it stores\nthe return value of get_ncm(), which is unsigned.\n\nA malicious host can supply a large offset that overflows the signed\nndp_index, making it negative. Because ndp_index is compared against\nunsigned bounds, this negative value bypasses sanity checks and leads\nto an out-of-bounds read when calculating the address of the NDP\nblock (ntb_ptr + ndp_index).\n\nFix this by changing ndp_index to unsigned int to ensure consistent\nunsigned comparisons throughout the function."
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