Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.4.78,5.5)[5.9.9,5.10)[5.10,6.1.191)[6.2,6.6.141)[6.7,6.12.91)[6.13,6.18.33)[6.19,7.0.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20789837
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed24 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-53076  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.5, 5.10, 6.1.191, 6.6.141, 6.12.91, 6.18.33, 7.0.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds in the pcpu_init_value process. An attacker can disclose sensitive kernel memory and potentially cause a system crash or panic by creating a BPF map with a value size not aligned to 8 bytes, then copying data from a CGROUP_STORAGE map to a per-CPU map with the same unaligned value size. This is only exploitable if the attacker can load and execute BPF programs with access to create and manipulate BPF maps.

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
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