Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.11,6.12.114)[6.13,6.18.33)[6.19,7.0.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20790593
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed19 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-63859  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.114, 6.18.33, 7.0.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure due to improper cleanup in the airoha_qdma_cleanup_tx_queue process. An attacker can cause unintended behavior or potentially impact system stability by triggering the reuse of uninitialized or stale DMA TX descriptors.

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