CVE-2026-74492

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74492
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74492.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-74492
Downstream
AZL (1)
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (13)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (13)
Published
2026-08-15T12:27:21Z
Modified
2026-10-24T02:30:21Z
Severity
  • 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
netfilter: ipset: do not update comments from kernel-side hash adds
Details

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

netfilter: ipset: do not update comments from kernel-side hash adds

mtype_resize() copies comment pointers with memcpy(), not the comment objects themselves. During the window after an entry has been copied but before the table swap and backlog replay, the old table is still published for packet-side updates while the replacement-table entry already holds the same ip_set_comment_rcu pointer.

If xt_SET --add-set ... --exist hits that old entry in this window, mtype_add() calls ip_set_init_comment() even though packet-side adds carry no comment payload. That call frees the shared comment through the old entry, so the replacement-table entry now holds a stale pointer. When the queued add is replayed on the new table, mtype_add() calls ip_set_init_comment() again and strlen() dereferences the stale pointer.

Fix this in mtype_add() by skipping ip_set_init_comment() when ext->target marks a packet-side add. Userspace adds still update comments, while packet-side adds can no longer free comment storage shared with a resize copy.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/74xxx/CVE-2026-74492.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
f66ee0410b1c3481ee75e5db9b34547b4d582465
Fixed
6f13f4d52d06986c18f12e8bffaab944dd27ceab
Fixed
f9d6cabff1fca010562dcdb0d22b296bdca3ba5a
Fixed
16bfa7be2d76ca1e0aacfa363482e1bf8ab5042a
Fixed
661ff9c0cfbe07f8eed920dde9f7781491738207
Fixed
c710e9bf38e4e71a8db85d26a0f70c0674664207
Fixed
4ae701848e4ba9e9713375fb7d82218cbd309da2
Fixed
77dbb248a5cc7a5270cd37bbb0b635bf059a872a
Fixed
f30415929be8aeb002d557c8d3f7ab2d2188003a
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.4.24
Fixed
5.5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.5.8
Fixed
5.6
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5dd9488ae41070b69d2f4acb580f77db5705f9ca
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a469bab3386aebff33c59506f3a95e35b91118fd

Affected versions

v5.*
v5.4.100
v5.4.101
v5.4.102
v5.4.103
v5.4.104
v5.4.105
v5.4.106
v5.4.107
v5.4.108
v5.4.109
v5.4.110
v5.4.111
v5.4.112
v5.4.113
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v5.4.125
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v5.4.128
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v5.4.132
v5.4.133
v5.4.134
v5.4.135
v5.4.136
v5.4.137
v5.4.138
v5.4.139
v5.4.140
v5.4.141
v5.4.142
v5.4.143
v5.4.144
v5.4.145
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v5.5.16
v5.5.17
v5.5.18
v5.5.19
v5.5.8
v5.5.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74492.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.6.0
Fixed
5.10.265
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.216
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.183
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.151
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.103
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.44
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74492.json"