net: prestera: validate firmware header length
Priority LOW 22Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: prestera: validate firmware header length prestera_fw_hdr_parse() reads the firmware header before checking that the firmware image contains that header. Reject images shorter than struct prestera_fw_header before decoding the magic and version fields.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.00177 7th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Linux (Linux): 5.10.265, 5.15.216, 6.1.183 +5
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.265, 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.152, 6.12.104, 6.18.45, 7.1.9, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-74693
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2mgx-rhg3-xxxf
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38a3afbf9fd8a2e8c47fa3ca47b425a8a9623240
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fbcceb9d19f2d1dcdf099aee590f2517cb718bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0f382e8084117f0b11ffb070fe1079e38c0d7f9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fad06bb793d7089ae05b9fcf46e11be2dfe4850
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/470ac9cce7308e60cf2dceb448749cdd006e73de
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/363e048a9d0a6c245cbc348c8a220170afed046a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fa8a12296d8d5aa4b1c3904f0b354d81124cf29
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ae344eb540af3f457179b52bc6061416752485c
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Sources
- CVE-2026-74693 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-74693 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-2mgx-rhg3-xxxf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-74693 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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