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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-74399

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:41 AM

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Added Description

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

evm: terminate and bound the evm_xattrs read buffer

evm_read_xattrs() allocates size + 1 bytes, fills them from the list of
enabled xattrs, and then passes strlen(temp) to
simple_read_from_buffer(). When no configured xattrs are enabled, the
fill loop stores nothing and temp[0] remains uninitialized, so strlen()
reads beyond initialized memory.

Explicitly terminate the buffer after allocation, use snprintf() for
each formatted line, and pass the accumulated length, without risk of
truncation, to simple_read_from_buffer().
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b9f8282b40af4a99d6243d2cb939d14ff36b049
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11143a19f5b8dc8f414deab87571134f9f447313
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12ad52dc45a0c8c9d25e85b4a84201de4c5420ed
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38b7d63b23aa9d2ddde7688040e9426d32be4065
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8df81954d22a653a8b01d46692cd56f71137269b
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0f64cf8bfcb39e533d9e27aeb763a8d81b7f39d
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a36cbfb85f26e6c6fb6529b1a364331b94dc88f3
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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