Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.15,6.18.54)[6.19,7.2.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20945638
  • published15 Oct 2026
  • disclosed14 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-98414  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.18.54, 7.2.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the obj_cgroup_charge_pages process. An attacker can cause the root memory cgroup's page counter to grow without being uncharged by manipulating cgroup membership and memory allocation, leading to a memory leak that is not user-visible but can impact system resource accounting.

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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