CVE-2026-68121 Affecting kernel-rt-modules package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.168.1.rt7.509.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELRTMODULES-20151328
  • published26 Sept 2026
  • disclosed10 Aug 2026

Introduced: 10 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-68121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-rt-modules to version 0:4.18.0-553.168.1.rt7.509.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2026:71330.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-modules package and not the kernel-rt-modules package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

pppoe: reload header pointer after dev_hard_header()

pppoe_sendmsg() saves a pointer to the PPPoE header before calling dev_hard_header(). Device header callbacks are allowed to reallocate the skb head, invalidating pointers into it.

This can happen when a send is blocked in copy_from_user() while the first non-Ethernet port is added to an empty team device. The team's delegated GRE header callback then expands the skb head. PPPoE subsequently writes six bytes through the stale pointer into the freed head.

Reload the PPPoE header through the skb's network-header offset after device header creation. pskb_expand_head() updates that offset when it relocates the head.

CVSS Base Scores

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