Open Redirect Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.4,6.6.160)[6.7,6.12.113)[6.13,6.18.57)[6.19,7.2.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-21687330
  • published24 Oct 2026
  • disclosed23 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-99079  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-672  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.57, 7.2.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Open Redirect in the net/mlx5e process. An attacker can cause data corruption or double-publication of UMEM frames by triggering XDP redirects to AF_XDP sockets with full RX rings, leading to stale buffer pointers being released and reused.

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