Out-of-bounds Write Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.13,6.1.191)[6.2,6.6.160)[6.7,6.12.114)[6.13,6.18.57)[6.19,7.1.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20821200
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed28 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-80634  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.57, 7.1.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write in the nft_dev_forward_path process. An attacker can read sensitive kernel stack memory and corrupt adjacent stack data by sending specially crafted network packets through a vulnerable bridge VLAN topology. This can lead to disclosure of sensitive information, arbitrary kernel writes, control-flow hijack, or denial of service by triggering out-of-bounds stack reads and writes during flow offload setup in softirq context.

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