# 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-2026-74724"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:15.832Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:11.956Z"
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-2026-74724"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74724.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74724"
title: "ipvs: avoid out-of-bounds write in ip_vs_nat_icmp"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipvs: avoid out-of-bounds write in ip_vs_nat_icmp\n\nSashiko warns that local attacker can modify the packet\nwhile it is processed by IPVS. Some places read the\nIP ihl field multiple times which can cause out-of-bounds\naccess. One such place is ip_vs_nat_icmp where we\ncan write after the validated area.\n\nFix it by providing ciph argument just like it is done for\nIPv6 and use ciph-\u003elen as offset to the embedded transport\nheader.\n\nModify some IPv4 header checks by reading the ihl field\nonly once."
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