# 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-2026-74684"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:50.846Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:46:07.263Z"
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-2026-74684"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74684.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74684"
title: "net: tap: set skb-\u003edev before parsing virtio net header in tap_get_user_xdp()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: tap: set skb-\u003edev before parsing virtio net header in tap_get_user_xdp()\n\nThe commit 4f61f133f354 (\"net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in\ndev_parse_header_protocol when skb-\u003edev is null\") fixed a crash in\ntap_get_user() by assigning skb-\u003edev before calling tun_vnet_hdr_to_skb().\nThis is required because virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() may invoke\ndev_parse_header_protocol(), which dereferences skb-\u003edev. Without the\nassignment, a NULL pointer dereference can occur.\n\nHowever, tap_get_user_xdp() still parses the virtio-net header before\nassigning skb-\u003edev. When the vhost TX path passes an XDP buffer containing\na GSO virtio-net header but the protocol is set to zero on purpose,\ntun_vnet_hdr_to_skb() can reach dev_parse_header_protocol() while skb-\u003edev\nis still NULL, resulting in a crash.\n\nFix this by looking up the tap device and assigning skb-\u003edev before calling\ntun_vnet_hdr_to_skb(), matching the ordering already used in\ntap_get_user(). Preserve the existing RCU read-side critical section across\ndev_queue_xmit()."
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