Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.12.111,6.12.114)[6.14.6,6.15)[6.15,6.18.56)[6.19,7.1.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20821347
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed3 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-80734  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.114, 6.15, 6.18.56, 7.1.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the btrfs process. An attacker can cause disclosure of sensitive information, data corruption, or system instability by performing crafted write operations and manipulating inode cache states, such as through repeated file writes and memory pressure to evict and reload inodes. This can lead to misaligned folio sizes, resulting in exposure of adjacent on-disk data, persistent data corruption, and potential kernel crashes.

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