CVE-2026-74689

CVE-2026-74689

High · published August 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/atm: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in vcc_setsockopt()

vcc_setsockopt() contained an ineffective optlen check:

if (__SO_LEVEL_MATCH(optname, level) && optlen != __SO_SIZE(optname))

return -EINVAL;

If __SO_LEVEL_MATCH(optname, level) evaluated to false (e.g. if the caller

passed a mismatched level), the length check optlen != __SO_SIZE(optname)

was short-circuited and bypassed. Execution then fell through to switch(optname),

calling copy_from_sockptr() assuming optval contained sufficient space.

Furthermore, even if level matched, a cgroup BPF setsockopt filter could shrink

optlen after entry. Because copy_from_sockptr() on kernel pointers uses memcpy(),

this leads to a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read when optlen is smaller than the

expected structure size.

Fix this by using copy_safe_from_sockptr(), which unconditionally validates

that optlen is at least the expected size before copying. Also change the local

'value' variable type from 'unsigned long' to 'int' so that SO_SETCLP matches

its sizeof(int) ABI encoding on 64-bit systems.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00139 · 3.0th percentile
Published
2026-08-22T20:16Z
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 15:32Z
    net/atm: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in vcc_setsockopt()
    cvelistv5