# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74706"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:04.723Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:04.723Z"
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-2026-74706"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74706.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74706"
title: "bnge: Fix NULL pointer dereference in aux device release"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnge: Fix NULL pointer dereference in aux device release\n\nIf allocation of auxr_dev fails during auxiliary device setup, the error\npath calls auxiliary_device_uninit(), which eventually invokes\nbnge_aux_dev_release().\n\nThe release callback unconditionally dereferences aux_priv-\u003eauxr_dev-\u003epdev\nto retrieve the parent bnge_dev. Since auxr_dev has not yet been allocated\non this failure path, the dereference results in a NULL pointer exception\n\nRetrieve the parent bnge_dev from the auxiliary device's parent instead of\nauxr_dev, and free auxr_dev only when it was successfully allocated. This\nallows the release callback to correctly clean up partially initialized\nauxiliary devices."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8ac050ec3b1c0dcb5e89cf86fe2ebe0afcc73554","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83ef2f3cab7fe6dd9155cd598dc64be524d963a9"},{"version":"8ac050ec3b1c0dcb5e89cf86fe2ebe0afcc73554","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cb4298810e27e037d3ca07286ecbb97e89ba58d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"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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