Improper Access Control Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.0,6.6.143)[6.7,6.12.93)[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-20787898
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed25 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-23346  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.6.143, 6.12.93, 6.18.17, 6.19.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control in the ioremap_prot process. An attacker can cause the kernel to fault and potentially crash by accessing memory regions with incorrect permissions due to improper extraction of user memory type in the mapping process. This is only exploitable if the system is running on arm64 architecture with Privileged Access Never (PAN) enabled.

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