# 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-2026-74689"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:54.034Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:09.361Z"
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-2026-74689"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74689.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74689"
title: "net/atm: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in vcc_setsockopt()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/atm: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in vcc_setsockopt()\n\nvcc_setsockopt() contained an ineffective optlen check:\n  if (__SO_LEVEL_MATCH(optname, level) && optlen != __SO_SIZE(optname))\n      return -EINVAL;\n\nIf __SO_LEVEL_MATCH(optname, level) evaluated to false (e.g. if the caller\npassed a mismatched level), the length check optlen != __SO_SIZE(optname)\nwas short-circuited and bypassed. Execution then fell through to switch(optname),\ncalling copy_from_sockptr() assuming optval contained sufficient space.\n\nFurthermore, even if level matched, a cgroup BPF setsockopt filter could shrink\noptlen after entry. Because copy_from_sockptr() on kernel pointers uses memcpy(),\nthis leads to a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read when optlen is smaller than the\nexpected structure size.\n\nFix this by using copy_safe_from_sockptr(), which unconditionally validates\nthat optlen is at least the expected size before copying. Also change the local\n'value' variable type from 'unsigned long' to 'int' so that SO_SETCLP matches\nits sizeof(int) ABI encoding on 64-bit systems."
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