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CVE-2026-71226

high

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462114

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71226

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56985

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-05

Updated: 2026-08-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00121