Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6.35.9,2.6.36)[2.6.37,6.12.78)[6.13,6.18.19)[6.19,6.19.9)


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-20787927
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed20 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-23276  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.36, 6.12.78, 6.18.19, 6.19.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds through the iptunnel_xmit and ip6tunnel_xmit functions when a bond device in broadcast mode has GRE tap interfaces as slaves, and those GRE tunnels route back through the bond. An attacker can cause a kernel stack overflow and potentially crash the system by triggering infinite recursion between broadcast and tunnel transmission functions with multicast or broadcast traffic.

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