Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.3,5.15.222)[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
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20824911
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed25 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-98088  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 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 Information Exposure in the _base_assign_reply_queues process due to an out-of-bounds array read when dev_to_node() returns an invalid node index. An attacker can cause unintended information disclosure by triggering the use of an invalid NUMA node value, leading to access of memory outside the intended bounds.

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