PT-2026-70954
CVE-2026-68440
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Published
2026-08-12
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Updated
2026-10-09
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
A heap overflow occurs in the
txgbe read eeprom hostif() function when reading the module EEPROM. The function copies round up(length, 4) bytes into a buffer allocated by ethtool with exactly length bytes. If the length variable is not 4-aligned, it results in an out-of-bounds write.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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