CVE-2026-74567 PUBLISHED

keys: fix out-of-bounds read in keyring_get_key_chunk()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 15.08.2026 Updated: 15.08.2026

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

keys: fix out-of-bounds read in keyring_get_key_chunk()

For description-level chunks keyring_get_key_chunk() advances the read pointer by level * sizeof(long) past the inline prefix but only bounds-checks the prefix, so a long enough key description is read past its kmemdup(desc, desc_len + 1) allocation. Compute the full byte offset and bounds-check the description against it before reading.

The walk only reaches a description-level chunk when two keys collide through the hash, x, type and domain_tag chunks, so this is reached from an unprivileged add_key(2) with a crafted pair of same-type keys whose index hashes collide; KASAN reports a slab-out-of-bounds read.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f771fde82051976a6fc0fd570f8b86de4a92124b to d1933e03e8c74a018550c31a393b79c4d95bff40 (excl.)
  • affected from f771fde82051976a6fc0fd570f8b86de4a92124b to 3a744838453fb9309ce5a5526d3252e211d60152 (excl.)
  • affected from f771fde82051976a6fc0fd570f8b86de4a92124b to e9417d21a22ad2ec398e78fcf084b717ce92cf2f (excl.)
  • affected from f771fde82051976a6fc0fd570f8b86de4a92124b to 8dba33c1e779d0fb9a2acb31e354cf0fc0229111 (excl.)
  • affected from f771fde82051976a6fc0fd570f8b86de4a92124b to 63918731f9ae25b5deb022f118e941e6dddfcef4 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.151 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.103 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.44 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc6 to * (incl.)

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