CVE-2026-74345CriticalMicrosoft CVSS 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-74345 — azl3 kernel

Published
August 23, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products4

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.150.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.152.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.159.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates

2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update—
—Security Update6.6.161.1-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-74345

EchelonGraph score
9.8 CRITICAL
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/siw: Fix endpoint/socket association handling Disassociating a socket from an endpoint via siw_socket_disassoc() may release the last reference on that endpoint and free it. Therefore, don't clear the endpoints socket pointer after calling that function, but within. This fixes a: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in siw_cm_work_handler (drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c:1053 drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c:1075) which occurred after processing a malformed MPA request during connection establishment, causing the new endpoint to be closed.

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-74345, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

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