Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.12,6.12.112)[6.13,6.18.55)[6.19,7.2.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-21244284
  • published19 Oct 2026
  • disclosed18 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-98613  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.112, 6.18.55, 7.2.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass through the bpf_obj_free_fields process. An attacker can cause kernel stack exhaustion and potentially disrupt system availability by creating deeply nested or cyclic object ownership chains using local kptrs.

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