Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6.12,6.18.57)[6.19,7.1.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20814182
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed15 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-74544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.18.57, 7.1.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds in the u32_change process due to insufficient validation of the offshift parameter. An attacker can cause kernel memory corruption, unauthorized memory access, or system crash by supplying a crafted value for offshift when creating a filter and then sending specially crafted packets through the affected network namespace.

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

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