Improper Locking Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [3.16.50,3.17)[4.13,6.18.59)[6.19,7.2.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-21800885
  • published29 Oct 2026
  • disclosed28 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-99192  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-667  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.17, 6.18.59, 7.2.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Locking in the bcmgenet process due to improper handling of shared socket buffers before writing to the control block. An attacker can cause the byte queue limits to stall and disrupt network transmission by resubmitting a shared socket buffer that is still in the transmission ring.

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