Local memory corruption via oversized ioctl copies
Published Aug 15, 2026 · Updated Aug 15, 2026
Out-of-bounds writes in the AMD XDNA driver in Linux 6.14 through 7.1.4 allow local users to corrupt process memory via query ioctls. Affected handlers pass full structure or response lengths to copy_to_user() without limiting each copy to the caller-provided buffer_size. Access to the AMD NPU acceleration device is required; crafted short buffers overwrite adjacent mappings, enabling a crash or code execution in the calling process.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds writes in the AMD XDNA driver in Linux 6.14 through 7.1.4 allow local users to corrupt process memory via query ioctls. Affected handlers pass full structure or response lengths to copy_to_user() without limiting each copy to the caller-provided buffer_size. Access to the AMD NPU acceleration device is required; crafted short buffers overwrite adjacent mappings, enabling a crash or code execution in the calling process.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-74419
- Published
- Aug 15, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 15, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.14
- Affected versionversion=850d71f6bf4c2010efae845f9ff841cce902f22c <097e57195ef813735c8b714d6503bf3ad0742515
- Affected versionversion=850d71f6bf4c2010efae845f9ff841cce902f22c <6e87001fe19f251e2ae14373bc76554358a13df2
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