Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6.12,5.10.271)[5.11,5.15.222)[5.16,6.1.189)[6.2,6.6.158)[6.7,6.12.111)[6.13,6.18.53)[6.19,7.2.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20824660
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed25 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-97926  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.10.271, 5.15.222, 6.1.189, 6.6.158, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds in the ufs_read_cylinder process. An attacker can cause out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel heap memory by supplying a crafted UFS image with manipulated cylinder group metadata, which is then used as indices and bitmap positions without validation. This can lead to kernel memory corruption or system crashes when the victim mounts the malicious image read-write and triggers allocation or free operations. This is only exploitable if the kernel is configured with CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE enabled and the victim mounts the attacker-supplied UFS image read-write.

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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