Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 15, 2026
CVE-2026-74399
CVE-2026-74399
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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References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b9f8282b40af4a99d6243d2cb939d14ff36b049nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/11143a19f5b8dc8f414deab87571134f9f447313nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/12ad52dc45a0c8c9d25e85b4a84201de4c5420ednvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/38b7d63b23aa9d2ddde7688040e9426d32be4065nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8df81954d22a653a8b01d46692cd56f71137269bnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0f64cf8bfcb39e533d9e27aeb763a8d81b7f39dnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a36cbfb85f26e6c6fb6529b1a364331b94dc88f3nvd
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