CVE-2026-71226
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2026-08-05 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
Memory Corruption via Uncanceled AIO Requests on Error: libkcapi's one-shot AIO path can return an error before all submitted IOCBs are drained, allowing later kernel writes into caller-owned output buffers.
See more information about CVE-2026-71226 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.3 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Low |
| Integrity Impact: | Low |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 10 (libkcapi) | ELSA-2026-67267-0 | 2026-09-15 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (libkcapi) | ELSA-2026-67266-0 | 2026-09-14 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (libkcapi) | ELSA-2026-67265-0 | 2026-09-14 |
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