Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6.31,6.12.112)[6.13,6.18.53)[6.19,7.2.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20824742
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed25 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-97536  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.112, 6.18.53, 7.2.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the qla_do_work process. An attacker can cause kernel memory disclosure, arbitrary kernel memory writes, or system crash by triggering teardown of Fibre Channel or FCoE response queues while work is still pending on the associated workqueue.

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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