# 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-2026-74693"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:56.491Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:56.491Z"
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-2026-74693"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74693.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74693"
title: "net: prestera: validate firmware header length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: prestera: validate firmware header length\n\nprestera_fw_hdr_parse() reads the firmware header before checking\nthat the firmware image contains that header.\n\nReject images shorter than struct prestera_fw_header before decoding the\nmagic and version fields."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4c2703dfd7fabb0824b3bc345f9fa47e33248c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38a3afbf9fd8a2e8c47fa3ca47b425a8a9623240"},{"version":"4c2703dfd7fabb0824b3bc345f9fa47e33248c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0fbcceb9d19f2d1dcdf099aee590f2517cb718bb"},{"version":"4c2703dfd7fabb0824b3bc345f9fa47e33248c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0f382e8084117f0b11ffb070fe1079e38c0d7f9"},{"version":"4c2703dfd7fabb0824b3bc345f9fa47e33248c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fad06bb793d7089ae05b9fcf46e11be2dfe4850"},{"version":"4c2703dfd7fabb0824b3bc345f9fa47e33248c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"470ac9cce7308e60cf2dceb448749cdd006e73de"},{"version":"4c2703dfd7fabb0824b3bc345f9fa47e33248c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"363e048a9d0a6c245cbc348c8a220170afed046a"},{"version":"4c2703dfd7fabb0824b3bc345f9fa47e33248c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fa8a12296d8d5aa4b1c3904f0b354d81124cf29"},{"version":"4c2703dfd7fabb0824b3bc345f9fa47e33248c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ae344eb540af3f457179b52bc6061416752485c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"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"}]

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