{"cve":"CVE-2026-74472","nvd":{"published":"2026-08-15T13:17:51.953","modified":"2026-08-19T17:21:04.490","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nublk: reset kernel-owned dev_info fields in ublk_ctrl_add_dev()\n\nublk_ctrl_add_dev() memcpy()s the userspace ublksrv_ctrl_dev_info into\nub->dev_info and then fixes up the fields the driver owns, but misses\n->state and ->ublksrv_pid.\n\nA device added with ->state = UBLK_S_DEV_LIVE passes the\n\"->state != UBLK_S_DEV_DEAD\" test that ublk_stop_dev_unlocked() uses as its\nproxy for \"a disk is attached\", while ->ub_disk is still NULL, so DEL_DEV\nright after ADD_DEV oopses in del_gendisk().  UBLK_S_DEV_QUIESCED plus\nUBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY dies one step earlier, in ublk_force_abort_dev().  A\npoisoned ->state also gets START_USER_RECOVERY and the char device\nread/write path onto a device that was never started, and wedges START_DEV\nat -EEXIST.  A poisoned ->ublksrv_pid just makes GET_DEV_INFO report an\nunrelated task as the ublk server.\n\nReset both after the memcpy(), as ublk_detach_disk() does.  Userspace only\never reads these back, so correcting them silently breaks nothing.\n\nADD_DEV has copied ->state in unsanitized since ublk was merged, but back\nthen it was harmless: the gendisk was allocated during ADD_DEV, and both\nteardown and the START_DEV -EEXIST check keyed off disk_live() rather than\n->state.  The oops became reachable once the disk allocation moved to\nSTART_DEV and those checks switched to ->state.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/127033b79383a3e78361d7e971588aa8849f5124","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/205feb72e5beb3140e4e1403b6cff30cf739bab9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/787c944502e7e63d20a9201bada77e0dd924f458","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b67ce16b26ad0f14cfd6071013840aa95f823bea","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e65848e4ce352bac9e3465099354c8b8f845391f"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:49:10.689564601+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-74472","score":0.00173,"percentile":0.06631,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}