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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74694" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:57.113Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:57.113Z" 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-2026-74694" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74694.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74694" title: "net/ncsi: fix heap OOB read in NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD payload length" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/ncsi: fix heap OOB read in NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD payload length\n\nncsi_send_cmd_nl() takes the number of bytes to copy from the\nattacker-controlled ncsi_pkt_hdr.length field of the in-band packet\nheader, while the source buffer is the NCSI_ATTR_DATA netlink\nattribute whose readable size is nla_len() - sizeof(ncsi_pkt_hdr).\nThe two length sources are never cross-checked: only\nnla_len() \u003e= sizeof(struct ncsi_pkt_hdr) is enforced.\n\nWith hdr-\u003elength set larger than the attribute payload (up to 65535\nagainst at most 2032 readable bytes), ncsi_cmd_handler_oem() copies\npast the end of the netlink attribute buffer with unsafe_memcpy(),\nleaking up to ~64KB of kernel heap memory into the transmitted NCSI\ncommand packet. The destination skb is sized by the declared payload,\nso the write side does not overflow - this is a pure OOB read /\ninformation leak, reachable with CAP_NET_ADMIN on systems with a\nregistered NCSI device (e.g. OpenBMC on Aspeed BMC SoCs, where\nNET_NCSI=y is standard).\n\nReject commands whose declared payload extends past the end of the\ndata attribute.\n\nThe issue was found by the autokbug dynamic kernel fuzzer at Tencent\nYunding Lab." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9771b8ccdfa6dcb1ac5128ca7fe8649f3092d392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e60afa01d35f8b2671b27ca93309921427144cce"},{"version":"9771b8ccdfa6dcb1ac5128ca7fe8649f3092d392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67c72b8ef63d9d9a610546fda30b116638f39745"},{"version":"9771b8ccdfa6dcb1ac5128ca7fe8649f3092d392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4489b4a17892750131e4bef4bc1d3d703c8fb5ba"},{"version":"9771b8ccdfa6dcb1ac5128ca7fe8649f3092d392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43c7d0a6917751ea898ae584d00f24f5deac46d4"},{"version":"9771b8ccdfa6dcb1ac5128ca7fe8649f3092d392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5231ad0b376b801ab8cf2962b182cc29deaedb3"},{"version":"9771b8ccdfa6dcb1ac5128ca7fe8649f3092d392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02226af69362758046822840fc6a497f5de33f00"},{"version":"9771b8ccdfa6dcb1ac5128ca7fe8649f3092d392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a60b5af75abe8e3494ccd074fb4ae6e601a3e55"},{"version":"9771b8ccdfa6dcb1ac5128ca7fe8649f3092d392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"afa58b7384913c8773d837acdb07b035690ec5d2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"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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