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Linux CVE-2026-68480

| EUVDEUVD-2026-54211
2026-08-06 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 GHSA-76mh-mwm6-543c

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Aug 06, 2026 - 23:03 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 06, 2026 - 22:18 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection

An attacker injecting interrupts while the Safe-RET mitigation executes on machines affected by SRSO can neutralize the safe return sequence, potentially leading to data leakage through speculative execution.

Fixup register state as if the Safe-RET sequence executed successfully by "emulating" it, in a manner of speaking, and avoid executing a RET instruction after returning from the interrupt.

Analysis

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection

An attacker injecting interrupts while the Safe-RET mitigation executes on machines affected by SRSO can neutralize the safe return sequence, potentially leading to data leakage through speculative execution.

Fixup register state as if the Safe-RET sequence executed successfully by "emulating" it, in a manner of speaking, and avoid executing a RET instruction after returning from the interrupt.

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CVE-2026-68480 vulnerability details – vuln.today

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