Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.18.33,6.18.40)[6.19,7.1.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20816155
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed28 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-80617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.18.40, 7.1.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the airoha_ppe_foe_verify_entry process. An attacker can cause heap memory corruption, privilege escalation, or a kernel crash by sending specially crafted network packets that trigger an out-of-bounds write in the foe_check_time buffer.

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