CVE-2026-74371

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74371
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74371.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-74371
Downstream
Published
2026-08-15T05:58:51Z
Modified
2026-09-16T03:30:30Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
bpf: fix BPF_PROG_QUERY OOB write and cgroup backward compat
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: fix BPF_PROG_QUERY OOB write and cgroup backward compat

BPF_PROG_QUERY writes back the 'query.revision' field unconditionally to userspace. If userspace passes a smaller 'bpf_attr' structure (e.g. 40 bytes, which was the layout before the addition of 'query.revision'), the kernel performs an out-of-bounds write.

Fix this by propagating the user-provided attribute size 'uattr_size' down to the cgroup query handlers, and conditionally skipping writing the revision field to userspace when the provided buffer size is insufficient.

query.revision in bpf_mprog_query is structurally identical to the cgroup case: a late tail field, written unconditionally.

But the backward-compat hazard is not the same.

The min-historical-size test is per command, and bpf_mprog_query only serves attach types that were born with revision in the struct:

  • tcx_prog_query -> BPF_TCX_INGRESS/EGRESS
  • netkit_prog_query -> BPF_NETKIT_PRIMARY/PEER

tcx, netkit, the revision field, and bpf_mprog_query itself all landed in the same v6.6 merge window (053c8e1f235d added the mprog query API + revision; tcx in e420bed02507, netkit in 35dfaad7188c). There has never been a tcx/netkit BPF_PROG_QUERY userspace that doesn't know about revision. So for these commands the minimum legitimate struct already covers offset 56-64 — no old binary can be broken here.

Contrast with cgroup: BPF_PROG_QUERY on cgroup attach types shipped in 2017; revision write-back was bolted on years later (120933984460). That path has a real population of pre-revision callers.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/74xxx/CVE-2026-74371.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
195814a38a6a712bcb44d3dfa5109e926e92bec4
Fixed
b78eb6efbf052d44a3a14726aa7c7d5aa2e544d7
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1209339844601ec1766f4ff430673fbcfe42bb51
Fixed
a7131340d0f95df9a541257dccab5d85e6bcdd2b
Fixed
d3d630e8a7f3421bc2d204b87bdff35b4432a8e3
Fixed
21c4b99b27f3f85b89256e81b3e997dec0a460d0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74371.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.17.0
Fixed
6.18.40
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74371.json"