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CVE-2026-74361 (GCVE-0-2026-74361)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:58 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:46
VLAI
Title
nvme: fix FDP fdpcidx bounds check
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme: fix FDP fdpcidx bounds check The fdpcidx bounds check sets n = NUMFDPC + 1 but used > instead of >=, incorrectly accepting fdp_idx when it equals n (i.e. NUMFDPC + 1).
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 30b5f20bb2ddab013035399e5c7e6577da49320a , < 5e406928404d67a8da8aa3ae21732e1ea1a04118 (git)
Affected: 30b5f20bb2ddab013035399e5c7e6577da49320a , < 5d0e7d2af884b91329235abb16652ae4eead8079 (git)
Affected: 30b5f20bb2ddab013035399e5c7e6577da49320a , < 0967074f6830718fd2597404ef119bddd0dbfd00 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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