Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.5,6.6.130)[6.7,6.12.77)[6.13,6.18.17)[6.19,6.19.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20787897
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed18 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-23244  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.6.130, 6.12.77, 6.18.17, 6.19.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the nvme_pr_read_keys function. An attacker can trigger excessive memory allocation by supplying a large value for the num_keys parameter from userspace, potentially causing a denial of service through resource exhaustion.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1