{"cve":"CVE-2026-74712","nvd":{"published":"2026-08-22T16:16:45.957","modified":"2026-10-14T13:10:00.187","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()\n\nWe have seen in our CI the following KASAN message:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core]\nRead of size 272 at addr 0000000176795020 by task qemu-system-s39/82764\n[...]\n[<000011388ab3a7a0>] cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core]\n[<000011388ab3b61c>] mlx5_cmd_exec_cb+0x25c/0x4f0 [mlx5_core]\n[<000011388b21e82e>] mlx5_vdpa_exec_async_cmds+0x22e/0x5e0 [mlx5_vdpa]\n[<000011388b21fd44>] create_direct_keys+0x954/0xef0 [mlx5_vdpa]\n[...]\nThe buggy address is located 4128 bytes inside of\nallocated 4384-byte region [0000000176794000, 0000000176795120)\n\nSo in essence we read 16 bytes beyond 4384-byte allocation.\ncreate_direct_keys calculates the pointer and length for in and out\nbuffers.\nThe size calculation for in includes the entire structure\nsize (out + in + mtt[]) but the pointer passed to cmd_exec points only\nto the 'in' field, skipping the 'out' field.\n\nThis causes mlx5_copy_to_msg() to read beyond the allocated buffer\nby sizeof(out) bytes when copying command data.\n\nProperly calculate the input size to match the pointer and allocation size.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.3},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c8a9f7bc00301e533a5366384f3070a8e7f8430","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/727e1f569855df83579edbd73dcb4a0723543a12","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cde8931a25392670dd59a0acfcab87a830ab66c5","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec3bb289cf19d526224117d5d450a5fd9cbd5ab2"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:49:38.260478770+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-74712","score":0.00142,"percentile":0.03446,"date":"2026-10-25"},"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."]}