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Improper resource deregistration ordering in the Linux kernel's spi/rspi (Renesas SPI controller) driver causes a local denial-of-service condition during driver unbind. The rspi driver releases DMA resources before deregistering the SPI controller, creating a window where in-flight controller operations can reference freed memory, resulting in a kernel crash or panic. With CVSS availability impact rated High and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile), this is a low-probability but locally exploitable stability issue affecting systems with Renesas SPI hardware. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's drm/xe Intel Xe GPU driver allows a local, low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly triggering DMA buffer import failures, leading to denial of service. The bug resides in xe_dma_buf_init_obj(), where a pre-allocated buffer object (bo) is not freed when drm_gpuvm_resv_object_alloc() fails, due to ambiguous ownership semantics between the caller and callee on error paths. No public exploit exists and EPSS probability is extremely low at 0.02% (4th percentile), placing this in the maintenance-priority category rather than urgent remediation for most environments.
An A-A (same-task) deadlock in the Linux kernel cgroup rmdir path (versions 7.0 through 7.1-rc2 and 6.19.x) can permanently hang the entire system, requiring a hard reboot. When a process acting as both a PID namespace zombie reaper (e.g., systemd/PID 1) and the cgroup rmdir(2) caller encounters dying tasks still linked to cgroup csets, the kernel blocks the reaper indefinitely in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, creating a circular dependency from which the system cannot recover. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, EPSS exploitation probability is extremely low (0.02%), and no CISA KEV listing exists - consistent with the scenario's narrow, operationally specific triggering conditions.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's Rockchip RKCIF (Camera Interface) media driver crashes the kernel when a local user enables streaming on a video device with no connected subdevice. Affected systems are Rockchip SoC-based platforms running Linux kernel versions from the introduction of the rkcif driver up through 6.19. A low-privileged local attacker can trigger a kernel panic - full denial of service - via the standard V4L2 VIDIOC_STREAMON ioctl. No public exploit code exists and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; EPSS of 0.02% (5th percentile) reflects the narrow hardware-specific attack surface.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's EDAC/versalnet driver allows a local low-privileged user to gradually exhaust kernel heap memory, rated CVSS 5.5 with high availability impact. The flaw exists in init_one_mc() where a kzalloc()-allocated device name string becomes permanently unreachable after device_register() copies and nullifies the pointer, preventing any subsequent free on device removal. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS at 0.02% (4th percentile) confirms this is a low-exploitation-probability defect rather than an actively targeted vulnerability.
Kernel panic via reachable assertion in the Linux kernel's AMDGPU SDMA v4 driver allows a local low-privileged user to crash the system by submitting crafted GPU command buffers. The sdma_v4_0_ring_emit_fence() function contains BUG_ON() assertions verifying dword-alignment of fence writeback addresses; these assertions are reachable through the DRM_IOCTL_AMDGPU_CS ioctl from unprivileged userspace, causing a fatal panic in a kernel scheduler worker thread. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% reflects low exploitation likelihood, but the impact on shared GPU compute systems warrants prompt patching.
Integer overflow in the AMDGPU VCN4 (Video Core Next 4) multimedia driver within the Linux kernel allows a local low-privileged user to cause a kernel denial of service. The bounds check on incoming messages to the VCN4 encoder/decoder engine contains an overflow-vulnerable condition, meaning a crafted message can bypass intended size validation. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS places exploitation probability at the 5th percentile, indicating very low real-world exploitation likelihood currently.
Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's Intel Xe DRM HDCP GSC subsystem allows a local, low-privileged user to crash the kernel when media GT is disabled via configfs. The function `intel_hdcp_gsc_check_status()` evaluates `>->uc.gsc` without first verifying that `media_gt` is non-NULL, producing a kernel pagefault on systems where media GT has been explicitly disabled through the configfs interface. Exploitation yields a denial of service (kernel panic) with no confidentiality or integrity impact; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS probability is 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating very low exploitation likelihood in the wild.
Denial-of-service via accept queue counter leak in the Linux kernel's vsock/virtio subsystem allows an authenticated local attacker to permanently exhaust a listener socket's backlog, causing it to reject all new connections. The flaw exists from kernel 5.5 onward in virtio_transport_recv_listen(), where sk_acceptq_added() is called before vsock_assign_transport() validation; failed transport assignments never call the paired sk_acceptq_removed(), permanently inflating sk_ack_backlog. No public exploit exists and EPSS is at the 5th percentile, but the impact in multi-tenant virtualized environments relying on vsock communication is a complete denial of vsock listener service.
NULL pointer dereference and silent error suppression in the Linux kernel's Qualcomm MSM DRM/GEM subsystem allows a low-privileged local user to crash the kernel (denial of service) via a crafted GEM_INFO ioctl call. The msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata() function unconditionally returns 0 on error and fails to check kmemdup() for a NULL return, enabling a dereference in the subsequent copy_to_user() call. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting minimal real-world exploitation pressure despite the confirmed availability of upstream patch commits.
Uninitialized socket buffer data exposure in the Linux kernel's vsock/virtio transport layer (6.7 and later) corrupts vsockmon tap monitoring output when non-linear skbs are in use. The `virtio_transport_copy_nonlinear_skb()` function constructs an `iov_iter` without setting `iov_iter.count`, causing zero-length copies that leave skb payloads uninitialized on the monitor interface - potentially exposing stale kernel memory to vsockmon consumers. Patched stable releases 6.12.90, 6.18.32, and 7.0.9 are available; no public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02% (5th percentile), placing real-world exploitation risk very low but warranting attention in environments actively using vsockmon debugging.
Kernel crash (denial of service) in the Linux kernel's hid-appletb-kbd driver results from calling a mutex-acquiring function from softirq and IRQ atomic contexts on Apple Touch Bar MacBooks running Linux. Authenticated local attackers with low privileges can trigger a kernel BUG by inducing Touch Bar inactivity or generating HID events that exercise the broken brightness-reset path, crashing the system. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS is 0.02% (4th percentile), reflecting the niche hardware requirement; patches are available in kernel versions 6.18.32, 7.0.9, and 7.1-rc4.
Denial-of-service via improper resource teardown ordering in the Linux kernel's MPC52xx SPI controller driver (spi/mpc52xx) affects systems running PowerPC-based embedded hardware. During driver unbind, the SPI controller was deregistered after - rather than before - disabling underlying resources such as interrupts and GPIOs, creating a window where the kernel could access freed or disabled resources and trigger a system crash. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and with an EPSS of 0.02% (5th percentile), real-world exploitation is assessed as very low probability.
Kernel panic via race condition in the f2fs filesystem extent node management affects Linux kernel across multiple stable branches. When f2fs_destroy_extent_node() is invoked from f2fs_drop_inode() with I_SYNC set, a concurrent kworker writeback thread can insert new extent nodes into the same extent tree between lock releases, causing node_cnt to become non-zero upon loop exit and triggering f2fs_bug_on() - a deliberate kernel assertion failure resulting in a system crash. A secondary gap leaves EX_BLOCK_AGE extent tree updates completely unprotected by the FI_NO_EXTENT flag check, compounding the race surface. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating low exploitation probability in the near term.
Denial of service in the Linux kernel's Microchip Core QSPI driver corrupts SPI transfers on systems using this controller. The spi-microchip-core-qspi driver incorrectly attempts to transmit garbage data during emulated read-only dual/quad SPI operations - a protocol violation, since QSPI lacks a dedicated MOSI line and the core hardware is expected to generate read clock cycles autonomously. The result is a bricked (permanently failed) SPI transfer, causing availability loss for any kernel component or userspace process depending on that SPI bus. No public exploit exists and EPSS probability is 0.02%, consistent with a hardware-specific, locally-triggered driver defect.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's octeon_ep_vf driver crashes the kernel when napi_build_skb() fails during memory allocation in the receive path. Systems running kernels from the introduction of the octeon_ep_vf driver (commit 1cd3b407977c) through multiple stable branches are affected where Marvell Octeon EP VF network adapters are in use. A local, low-privileged attacker who can induce memory pressure while network traffic flows through an Octeon EP VF interface can trigger a kernel panic, resulting in full system unavailability. No public exploit code exists, EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), and this vulnerability has not been added to CISA KEV.
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel's RSI (Redpine Signals) WiFi driver allows a local low-privileged attacker to crash the kernel by exploiting a race condition between kthread self-exit and external stop operations. When `kthread_complete_and_exit` races ahead of `kthread_stop`, the already-freed task struct is dereferenced, causing a kernel denial of service. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting very low real-world exploitation probability; the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.
Uninitialized memory read in Linux kernel's Bluetooth virtio_bt driver allows a malicious or compromised virtio backend to trigger kernel DoS and potential information disclosure against guest VMs. The driver's virtbt_rx_handle() function fails to validate that received RX socket buffers contain sufficient bytes to cover the fixed HCI header for the declared packet type before forwarding to hci_recv_frame(). A backend-supplied one-byte completion with type HCI_ACLDATA_PKT causes the ACL classification path in hci_dev_classify_pkt_type() to dereference hci_acl_hdr(skb)->handle on an empty buffer when the HCI device holds an active CIS_LINK, BIS_LINK, or PA_LINK connection, reading two bytes of uninitialized RX-buffer data. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), consistent with a kernel subsystem bug requiring privileged backend access in a virtualized environment.
Division by zero in the Linux kernel's ua101 USB audio driver allows a local attacker to crash the kernel by presenting a crafted USB device with a malformed audio class descriptor. The ua101 driver's `detect_usb_format()` function fails to validate the `bNrChannels` field before use, so a device reporting `bNrChannels = 0` causes `frame_bytes` to become zero, which is subsequently used as a divisor in both `playback_urb_complete()` and `capture_urb_complete()` URB handlers, triggering a fatal kernel panic. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), but the vulnerability affects multiple supported stable branches and patches are available across all of them.
Kernel stack memory disclosure in the Linux kernel's pseries/papr-hvpipe driver exposes up to 43 bytes of uninitialized stack data to unprivileged local users on IBM Power (pseries) systems. The `struct papr_hvpipe_hdr` reserved padding fields (`reserved[3]` and `reserved2[40]`) are never zeroed before `copy_to_user()` copies the full structure to userspace, allowing a local attacker to harvest stale kernel stack contents - potentially including ASLR offsets or residual cryptographic material. No public exploit exists and no CISA KEV listing applies; EPSS at 0.02% (4th percentile) reflects low exploitation probability consistent with the narrow pseries-only deployment scope. Vendor-released patches are confirmed in stable branches 6.18.30, 7.0.7, and 7.1-rc3.
Divide-by-zero in the Linux kernel ASoC SOF compressed audio subsystem allows a low-privileged local user to crash the kernel by querying stream pointer position before stream parameters are configured. Affected are Linux kernel stable branches 6.6 through 7.0 (pre-patch), all running on hardware with SOF audio drivers loaded. No active exploitation has been confirmed - EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile) and the vulnerability is absent from CISA KEV - making this a medium-severity availability risk relevant primarily to multi-user desktop and embedded audio platforms.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's RISC-V KVM vector context allocation allows a local low-privileged attacker to exhaust kernel memory, causing denial of service on RISC-V hypervisor hosts. The flaw exists in kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context() where a failed second kzalloc call (host_context.vector.datap) returns an error without freeing the first allocation (guest_context.vector.datap), accumulating unreleased kernel memory across repeated vCPU creation attempts. No public exploit exists and no active exploitation is confirmed; EPSS at 0.02% (4th percentile) reflects the narrow RISC-V KVM deployment surface.
Scheduling-while-atomic kernel panic in the Linux kernel MPTCP subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to crash the host by setting timestamp socket options on an MPTCP socket. The defect stems from invoking sleepable helpers - sock_set_timestamp() and sock_set_timestamping() - inside the atomic context established by lock_sock_fast(), violating the kernel's non-sleeping constraint for spinlock holders. No public exploit code has been identified and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating negligible real-world exploitation probability at this time. Note: the 'Information Disclosure' tag applied by some sources appears incorrect - the actual impact is limited to availability (kernel panic/crash) with no confidentiality or integrity consequence per the CVSS vector.
Uninitialized heap memory in the Linux kernel's usblp USB printer driver leaks a stale kernel byte to userspace through the LPGETSTATUS ioctl when a malicious or non-compliant USB printer returns zero bytes to a one-byte status request. Affected branches span kernel versions from 2.6.12 through 6.18.x, 7.0.x, and 7.1-rc3, with fixes available in stable releases 6.6.140, 6.12.88, 6.18.30, and 7.0.7. No public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02% (5th percentile); exploitation requires local access, a cooperating malicious USB device, and access to the printer device node - substantially narrowing real-world risk despite the breadth of affected kernel versions.
OpenVSwitch tunnel port removal in the Linux kernel triggers a self-deadlock that permanently hangs the kernel's RTNL lock, causing a denial of service requiring system reboot. The flaw affects systems across multiple stable kernel branches (6.6.x, 6.12.x, 6.18.x, 7.0.x) where OVS tunnel vports (VXLAN, GRE, GENEVE) are actively managed. Patched versions are available across all affected stable branches; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 0.02% (5th percentile) indicates negligible observed exploitation probability.
Divide-by-zero in the Linux kernel's md/raid10 subsystem allows a local authenticated user to crash the kernel by supplying a zero far_copies value when configuring a RAID10 array with the 'improved' far set layout. The affected function setup_geo() performs the division geo->far_set_size = disks / fc without first validating that fc is non-zero, triggering a kernel oops or panic and producing a high availability impact. EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile) and this CVE is not listed in CISA KEV, consistent with the local-only, configuration-specific attack vector and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
Kernel panic (ADE - Address Error for Memory access) in the LoongArch-specific PCI fixup function loongson_gpu_fixup_dma_hang() crashes systems that boot with a discrete Loongson GPU whose PCI device ID does not match any handled case in the switch statement. The missing default case causes readl() to be called with a garbage MMIO address derived from uninitialized register state, resulting in a hard kernel panic at boot time (PID 1, swapper/0) and rendering the system unavailable. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), consistent with a hardware-specific local DoS requiring no attacker interaction.
Memory exhaustion in the Linux kernel's 8021q VLAN subsystem allows a local user with low privileges to cause denial-of-service by repeatedly manipulating VLAN egress QoS priority mappings. The function `vlan_dev_set_egress_priority()` retains cleared priority entries as unreachable tombstones in the kernel hash table across set/clear cycles, accumulating until device teardown and leaking kernel memory. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02% at the 5th percentile, indicating negligible real-world exploitation interest; however, the High availability impact in CVSS reflects potential OOM-triggered system instability on affected hosts.
Heap memory disclosure in the Linux kernel usblp USB printer driver allows a local attacker with a malicious USB printer to expose up to 1021 bytes of uninitialized kmalloc heap to userspace. The driver's usblp_cache_device_id_string() blindly trusts a device-supplied 2-byte big-endian length prefix in the IEEE 1284 GET_DEVICE_ID response, leaking stale kernel heap contents via the ieee1284_id sysfs attribute and the IOCNR_GET_DEVICE_ID ioctl. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile) and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, but vendor patches are confirmed across multiple stable kernel branches.
Incorrect hardware chip-select management in the Linux kernel spi/microchip-core-qspi driver causes the built-in hardware CS line to assert spuriously during SPI transactions directed at GPIO-managed chip selects on multi-device coreQSPI controllers. Systems using Microchip coreQSPI IP hardware with two or more attached SPI devices - where at least one device uses the built-in hardware CS - are subject to unintended bus assertion that can crash or disrupt SPI-dependent peripherals, producing a high-availability impact. No public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02% (4th percentile), consistent with the narrow embedded-hardware topology required for manifestation; the vulnerability is not in CISA KEV.
Two distinct bugs in the Linux kernel's pKVM (protected KVM) arm64 vCPU initialization path allow a local low-privileged user to cause persistent resource pin leaks and observe partially initialized memory objects. The pin leak (Bug 1) occurs when an error path in __pkvm_init_vcpu() jumps to cleanup without releasing hyp_pin_shared_mem() references on host vCPU and SVE state pages, permanently exhausting pin references and ultimately degrading or crashing the hypervisor subsystem. A separate memory ordering flaw (Bug 2) uses a bare store to publish the vCPU pointer into hyp_vm->vcpus[], allowing a concurrent pkvm_load_hyp_vcpu() caller to read a partially initialized vCPU object. No active exploitation has been identified and EPSS is 0.02%, consistent with a kernel subsystem bug affecting a specialized configuration rather than a broadly targeted attack surface.
Denial of service in the Linux kernel ALSA USB audio subsystem allows a local attacker to hang a CPU core indefinitely by presenting a malformed USB audio class v3 channel map descriptor. The affected function `convert_chmap_v3()` uses the descriptor field `cs_desc->wLength` as a loop increment without validating it, so a zero-length descriptor causes an unescapable infinite loop that saturates a CPU core until the process is killed or the system rebooted. No active exploitation has been confirmed - the vulnerability is absent from CISA KEV, and the EPSS score of 0.02% at the 5th percentile indicates negligible current attacker interest.
Resource leak in the Linux kernel's RDMA/mana driver allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel resources via a missing cleanup in the error unwind path of mana_ib_create_qp_rss(). The Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) InfiniBand subsystem fails to release mana_ib_cfg_vport_steering() allocations when QP RSS creation fails mid-flight, while the normal destroy path handles cleanup correctly - leaving the error path mismatched. No public exploit is identified and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting very low real-world exploitation probability, though patches are confirmed available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's Qualcomm ASoC q6apm-lpass-dai audio driver allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly invoking the ALSA prepare callback, which opens multiple APM graphs on the playback path without corresponding release. Affected systems are limited to those running Qualcomm LPASS audio hardware across several Linux stable branches (6.6.x, 6.9.x, 6.10, 6.12.x). No public exploit exists and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) reflects negligible real-world exploitation interest; the practical impact is local denial of service on Qualcomm SoC-equipped devices.
System hang vulnerability in the Linux kernel's libwx (WangXun) network driver affects systems using SR-IOV Virtual Functions. During VF initialization, the driver attempts to read register WX_CFG_PORT_ST, which is restricted to Physical Functions only; this illegal register access causes the system to hang, resulting in a complete denial of service. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, but any system running a WangXun NIC with SR-IOV enabled and attaching a VF is directly exposed.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's powerpc XIVE interrupt subsystem causes progressive kernel heap exhaustion on IBM POWER9+ systems when MSI-X vectors are allocated and then freed for PCI devices such as NVMe controllers. The regression was introduced by commit cc0cc23babc9 which refactored the XIVE/child interrupt controller relationship: xive_irq_free_data() subsequently used the wrong domain lookup path, causing every allocated struct xive_irq_data (64 bytes) to be orphaned on irqdomain teardown. No public exploit is identified and EPSS stands at 0.02% (4th percentile), consistent with the narrow hardware-specific scope and local-only access requirement.
The Linux kernel SMB client transmits uninitialized kernel heap data in the reserved Sbz2 field of Windows ACL security descriptors to remote Samba servers, causing chmod operations on SMB-mounted filesystems to fail with EINVAL. This regression was introduced by commit 62e7dd0a39c2d, which split a struct field but left a newly created 2-byte reserved field unpopulated due to use of kmalloc() instead of kzalloc(). No public exploit exists (EPSS 0.02%, no KEV listing); the practical impact is an operational disruption of file permission management on Samba-backed mounts, with a secondary minor information disclosure of heap contents to the remote server.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's cros_ec_typec driver crashes the kernel when a Thunderbolt alternate mode operation is processed on affected ChromeOS devices. The flaw originates in cros_typec_register_thunderbolt(), which allocates the adata structure but omits mutex_init(&adata->lock); when cros_typec_altmode_work() later acquires that uninitialized mutex, the kernel dereferences a NULL or garbage pointer and panics. No public exploit code exists and EPSS of 0.02% (4th percentile) reflects the narrow hardware prerequisite and strictly local-only attack surface; the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.
Availability impact in Linux Kernel KVM's x86 nested virtualization subsystem allows a low-privileged user operating within an L2 (nested) guest to trigger a host kernel denial-of-service via incorrect hypercall handling. The root cause is an incorrect guard condition in slow-flush hypercall paths: KVM checks `is_guest_mode(vcpu)` before calling `translate_nested_gpa()`, but that translation function is only valid when the L2 guest is running with nested EPT/NPT actually enabled - not merely when guest mode is active. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS exploitation probability is 0.02% (5th percentile). Vendor-released patches are available across multiple stable branches.
Denial-of-service in the Linux kernel IPMI subsystem allows a system crash when the BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) returns a malformed empty event message buffer instead of a proper error code. The kernel's IPMI driver defers response size validation to later processing stages rather than checking immediately upon receipt, causing it to process invalid data from certain non-compliant BMC firmware. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile); the trigger is hardware-driven misbehavior rather than deliberate attacker input, but the availability impact is high (kernel panic). Patched kernel versions are available across multiple stable branches.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's RDMA/ocrdma driver crashes systems running Emulex OneConnect RDMA adapters. The flaw exists in `ocrdma_copy_pd_uresp()`, where error-path code dereferences `pd->uctx` before it is initialized, producing a kernel panic and complete system unavailability when triggered. No public exploit code has been identified and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting very low exploitation probability at this time; however, the local low-privilege vector means any unprivileged user on an affected system with ocrdma hardware present could trigger the crash.
Improper error-path cleanup in the RDMA/mana driver's `mana_ib_create_qp_rss()` function allows a local low-privileged user on Azure VMs with Microsoft MANA NICs to crash the kernel. Two logic bugs in the WQ table unwind - a redundant `i--` that skips a cleanup iteration, and a missed `mana_destroy_wq_obj()` call when `mana_ib_install_cq_cb()` fails - leave kernel objects in a dangling state, producing a high-availability (DoS) impact. No public exploit exists and EPSS is at the 5th percentile; this vulnerability is not in CISA KEV.
Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's pseries/papr-hvpipe subsystem crashes IBM POWER/pSeries hosts via a local ioctl call. The flaw was introduced by commit 6d3789d347a7, which refactored papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() to use FD_PREPARE() but left src_info accessible after retain_and_null_ptr() nulled it, causing a write to address 0x0 when the pointer is subsequently used in the global list insertion path. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access on pSeries hardware; no public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, indicating negligible opportunistic exploitation risk.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel USB ULPI subsystem allows a local low-privilege attacker to gradually exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly triggering registration failures in the ulpi_register() function. A prior fix for a double-free (commit 01af542392b5) removed the kfree(ulpi) call on the device_register() failure path but inadvertently left the allocation unreleased when ulpi_of_register() or ulpi_read_id() fail before device_register() is ever reached. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, indicating minimal real-world exploitation pressure; however, patched kernel stable releases are available across all supported branches.
Denial of service in the Linux kernel's IPMI SI (System Interface) driver results from improper state machine recovery when message allocation fails, leaving the driver stuck in a non-normal state and rendering the IPMI subsystem non-functional. Locally authenticated users with low privileges on affected systems with an active ipmi_si module can trigger this condition, typically under memory-pressure scenarios. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) confirms negligible exploitation interest, and patches are available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Three concurrent race conditions in the Linux kernel's eventfs subsystem (tracefs) can be triggered during remount operations, leading to kernel denial-of-service via LIST_POISON1 pointer dereference or use-after-free. Systems running affected kernel versions with tracefs mounted are vulnerable when a local user with sufficient privilege simultaneously remounts the filesystem while kprobe events are being added or removed. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) indicates very low observed exploitation probability.
SELinux socket permission helpers in the Linux kernel misread security blob data in stacked LSM configurations, causing kernel crashes or incorrect AVC (Access Vector Cache) decisions. Specifically, sock_has_perm() and nlmsg_sock_has_extended_perms() dereference sk->sk_security directly under the assumption that the SELinux blob always sits at offset zero, which fails when another LSM allocates socket blob storage ahead of SELinux in a stacked configuration. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, EPSS is 0.02%, and patches are available for Linux 6.18.30 and 7.0.7.
Keycloak's ClientRegistrationAuth component can be crashed by a remote unauthenticated attacker through a specially crafted POST request bearing a malformed 'Authorization: Bearer' header, triggering an unhandled ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException and returning HTTP 500 to all subsequent callers of the affected endpoint. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms zero prerequisites for exploitation beyond network reachability, making any publicly exposed Keycloak client registration endpoint a viable target. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and no EPSS data was supplied, but the trivial attack mechanics mean no specialized tooling is required to reproduce the denial of service.
Refresh token replay in Keycloak allows a remote attacker who has previously captured a user's refresh token to reuse that token after it has been revoked, bypassing session expiration controls. The vulnerability surfaces specifically when revokeRefreshToken=true is configured alongside persistent session storage, and is triggered by a server restart that resets the internal timing mechanisms responsible for enforcing token revocation. Successful exploitation can yield full account takeover, information disclosure, or privilege escalation; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the CVE does not appear in CISA KEV.
Denial of service in Keycloak's LDAP federation layer allows an authenticated realm administrator - or an attacker who has compromised an upstream LDAP server - to crash the entire Keycloak JVM by inducing an OutOfMemoryError through a malformed LDAP password policy response. Because Keycloak typically serves multiple realms from a single JVM process, a successful attack denies service to all realms on the affected node, not just the targeted one. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Keycloak's Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA) flow fails to enforce brute-force account lockouts, allowing an attacker with valid OAuth client credentials to continue initiating authentication requests and obtain tokens for a user account that should be temporarily locked. This undermines the core account-protection mechanism designed to throttle credential-stuffing and password-guessing campaigns. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, though its CVSS score of 4.3 understates the strategic value of bypassing a lockout policy in an identity provider.
User impersonation in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2 allows an authenticated attacker to obtain a valid Keystone token attributed to an arbitrary victim user by exploiting a missing ownership check in the application credential authentication plugin. The attacker supplies their own application credential ID and secret while embedding a different user's name and domain in the request body, and Keystone issues a project-scoped token carrying the intersection of the attacker's application credential roles and the victim's project roles. This enables audit log evasion, exposure of the victim's credentials, and unauthorized action within shared OpenStack projects. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
OpenStack Keystone's federated token rescoping mechanism allows authenticated federated users to indefinitely extend their session beyond operator-configured token lifetime policies by repeatedly calling POST /v3/auth/tokens before each token expires. The root cause is that handle_scoped_token() in the mapped authentication plugin omits the expires_at field from its response, causing the token provider to silently issue a fresh default-TTL token instead of inheriting the original token's expiry. This effectively renders token lifetime enforcement inoperative for all SAML2 and OpenID Connect-backed federated deployments running Keystone versions prior to 29.0.2. No public exploit code exists and this is not listed in CISA KEV, but the technique is trivially repeatable by any valid federated user.
Incorrect authorization in Apache ActiveMQ Artemis allows authenticated STOMP protocol clients to modify address routing-type settings without sufficient privilege checks. Affects Artemis versions through 2.44.0 and 2.53.0 respectively, the flaw (CWE-863) permits low-privileged network users to alter broker address routing configuration, impacting message routing integrity. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and CISA KEV listing is absent, placing this in a monitor-and-patch priority tier rather than emergency response.
Null pointer dereference in Wireshark's ROHC protocol dissector causes application crashes across two active release branches, constituting a denial-of-service condition. Affected versions span Wireshark 4.6.0 through 4.6.5 and 4.4.0 through 4.4.15; patched releases 4.6.6 and 4.4.16 are available per the vendor advisory wnpa-sec-2026-51. The attack vector is local with required user interaction (CVSS AV:L/UI:R), meaning exploitation requires a victim to open a specially crafted packet capture file - no remote or automated exploitation path exists, and no public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the RabbitMQ Management Plugin web UI allows a high-privileged authenticated attacker to inject malicious script content that executes in the browser of another administrative user viewing the affected page. Affected deployments span RabbitMQ Server 3.7.0 through 4.0.12 and 4.1.0-alpha through 4.1.1. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis; however, successful exploitation can result in high confidentiality impact, consistent with session token theft or credential harvesting within the management console.
We are tasked with synthesizing data from multiple intelligence sources about CVE-2026-44838 into a comprehensive analysis, returned as a JSON object. The instructions are very specific: every field must be a plain text string, a coherent paragraph, not an array or object. We need to cross-reference all provided data. Let's extract key information: - Product: RabbitMQ (from description: "RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.2.0 to before 4.2.4, RabbitMQ's MQTT plugin allows..."). In CPE: cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* so product_name: "RabbitMQ" (as the broker). Or "RabbitMQ Server"? The description says "RabbitMQ" but product_name should be 1-3 words only, specific product. Use "RabbitMQ". I'll use "RabbitMQ". - Summary: Needs to be 2-3 sentence plain-language synthesis. Must not start with "A vulnerability..." etc. Start with specific impact verb and product. So: "Authorization bypass in RabbitMQ MQTT plugin allows authenticated users to escape regex topic restrictions." The vulnerability: regex injection due to unescaped client_id. Impact: bypass topic-level authorization, read/write to topics they shouldn't. Affected versions: 4.2.0 to before 4.2.4. Fixed in 4.2.4 and 4.3.0. No active exploitation indicated (KEV not listed, only SSVC exploitation none). EPSS 0.04% low. Patch available. So summary: "Authorization bypass in RabbitMQ's MQTT plugin (versions 4.2.0 to 4.2.3) enables authenticated MQTT users to inject regex operators into topic authorization patterns, gaining unauthorized access to messaging topics. Exploitation is not yet observed in the wild (CISA KEV not listed), and EPSS indicates low probability, but a patch is available in versions 4.2.4 and 4.3.0." That's good, mentions specific impact, product, versions, exploitation, patch. - technical_context: Underlying technology: RabbitMQ MQTT plugin, regex pattern matching with variable substitution for topic authorization. CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, so root c
Heap buffer overflow in libjxl 0.12.0 lets remote attackers corrupt heap memory by feeding a crafted PBM/PNM image to the jxl::extras::DecodeImagePNM routine, which writes decoded rows into an output buffer without first checking that the buffer is large enough for the header-declared dimensions. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) describes unauthenticated, low-complexity exploitation with no user interaction, and CISA's SSVC framework rates it automatable with partial technical impact. Publicly available exploit code exists, though it is not listed in CISA KEV and no public exploit has been tied to active exploitation.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's CAN UCAN USB driver allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly triggering driver unbind cycles without physical device disconnection. The flaw (CWE-401) exists because devres-managed buffers are incorrectly scoped to the parent USB device rather than the USB interface, so they are never released during software-initiated unbind events such as probe deferral or configuration changes. No public exploit code exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating near-zero real-world exploitation probability despite the CVSS Availability: High rating.
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel CAIF networking subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel via a double invocation of caif_free_client(). The CAIF socket layer in caif_connect() can tear down a client on remote shutdown, freeing the service object via adap_layer->dn but leaving that pointer stale; when the socket is later destroyed, caif_sock_destructor() dereferences the already-freed pointer, triggering a NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) and kernel oops. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), but vendor-released patches are available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's TPM2 session subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory over time via repeated invocations of the vulnerable tpm2_read_public() function. The function allocates a kernel buffer via tpm_buf_init() but fails to call tpm_buf_destroy() on both its success path and its error path triggered by an unrecognized hash algorithm, leaking a page allocation each time. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 0.02% at the 4th percentile reflects very low real-world exploitation probability.
Race condition in the Linux kernel's md/md-llbitmap subsystem can cause availability loss on systems using software RAID with bitmap tracking. The barrier raise in llbitmap_start_write() and llbitmap_start_discard() occurs after the state machine transition is initiated, creating a window where concurrent state changes proceed without synchronization - potentially crashing the RAID subsystem or rendering an md array unavailable. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 0.02% (4th percentile) reflects negligible automated exploitation risk. Patches are available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Denial of service in the Linux kernel's igorplugusb infrared remote control driver allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel on systems where a compatible USB IR receiver is connected and the host controller performs DMA on control requests. The igorplugusb driver failed to allocate the USB control request structure separately, violating DMA coherency requirements enforced by certain host controllers - an object allocated on the kernel stack or embedded in a larger structure is not guaranteed to be DMA-safe. No public exploit code exists, and EPSS of 0.02% confirms negligible exploitation interest. Vendor-released patches are available across multiple stable branches.
The zram compressed-RAM block device driver in the Linux kernel hangs processes indefinitely when partial discard requests are submitted on systems where the discard granularity is smaller than the system page size (e.g., 4K discards on ARM64 systems with 64K pages). The driver correctly identifies partial discards as unsupported and returns early, but omits calling bio_endio(), leaving submit_bio_wait() blocked forever. Exploitation requires local access to a zram device with low privileges; no public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, consistent with a niche local denial-of-service. Patches are available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Kernel panic via exhausted buffer in the ALSA control subsystem affects Linux kernel builds compiled with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE and Clang, allowing a local low-privileged user to crash the system. The function snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names() fails to guard against a zero buf_len before invoking strnlen(), and Clang's fortified strnlen fires a BRK exception when it cannot determine the object size of the advanced pointer p inside the loop - panicking the kernel before the intended error-path return. Discovered through kernel fuzz testing on Xiaomi Smartphone hardware; no public exploit and no KEV listing; EPSS is 0.02%.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's DAMON statistics subsystem (mm/damon/stat) causes kernel memory exhaustion when damon_start() fails during damon_stat_start(). The allocated DAMON context is never freed on the failure path, and the stale global pointer is overwritten on each subsequent enable attempt, making prior allocations permanently unreachable. Exploitation requires local access with low privileges, yields high availability impact (A:H) via progressive kernel memory exhaustion, and no public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.
Resource leak in the Linux kernel SPI subsystem allows a local low-privileged attacker to exhaust kernel resources and cause denial of service. The flaw affects multiple stable kernel branches (5.4.x through 7.x) and occurs when spi_setup() fails during SPI device registration, leaving resources allocated by setup() unreleased because the controller cleanup() callback is never invoked on the error path. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating very low real-world exploitation probability; this is a stability fix appropriate for routine patching rather than emergency response.
KVM SVM subsystem in the Linux Kernel incorrectly handles the INVLPGA instruction when EFER.SVME=0, failing to inject the required #UD (Undefined Opcode) exception into the guest VM. Systems running AMD hardware virtualization (AMD-V/SVM) under KVM are affected from kernel 2.6.32 through multiple stable branches, with the flaw enabling a low-privileged guest user to trigger a high-severity availability impact. No public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating very low current exploitation probability; however, the kernel maintainers tagged this for stable backports across six separate stable branches, reflecting broad deployment surface.
Credit exhaustion in the OCFS2 DIO completion path of the Linux kernel can cause the JBD2 journaling layer to exceed its maximum transaction credit limit, resulting in kernel warnings and a high-availability denial-of-service condition. Systems running the Linux kernel with the OCFS2 cluster filesystem configured for direct I/O workloads across multiple stable branches (6.6.x, 6.12.x, 6.18.x, 7.0.x) are affected. A local attacker with low privileges and write access to an OCFS2 volume can trigger complex extent tree merges that request more than 5449 JBD2 credits, destabilizing the filesystem journal. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and EPSS sits at the 5th percentile, reflecting very low real-world exploitation probability.
Null-pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's RBD (RADOS Block Device) subsystem crashes the kernel when device_add_disk() fails after device_add() has already succeeded. Systems running Linux kernel with Ceph RBD support enabled are affected across multiple stable branches from the introduction of commit 27c97abc30e2 through the patched releases. A local attacker with sufficient privileges to map RBD images via the sysfs interface can trigger this error path to cause a kernel panic and system-wide denial of service. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV), and the EPSS score of 0.02% at the 5th percentile signals negligible weaponization probability.
Incorrect DMA synchronization direction in the Linux kernel's atmel-tdes crypto driver exposes systems running on non-coherent cache architectures to stale cache data reads. The atmel-tdes driver incorrectly calls dma_sync_single_for_device() instead of dma_sync_single_for_cpu() before the CPU consumes DMA output, causing cache invalidation to be skipped on non-coherent platforms (typically ARM-based Atmel/Microchip SoCs). This means the CPU may read stale cached data rather than actual DES/3DES operation output, producing incorrect cryptographic results and potential information exposure from prior cache contents. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, but hardware-platform specificity limits real-world reach significantly.
Memory leak and potential use-after-free in the Linux kernel's spi-ch341 USB driver expose systems to local denial-of-service when CH341 device probe failures occur without proper resource cleanup. Kernels from the commit introducing the spi-ch341 driver (8846739f52afa07e63395c80227dc544f54bd7b1) through the respective stable-branch fix commits across the 6.11 through 7.0 lineages are affected. Repeated probe failures accumulate leaked kernel memory that can exhaust system resources; no active exploitation is identified (EPSS 0.02%, no CISA KEV listing), placing this firmly in the maintenance-priority rather than incident-response category.
Linux kernel's hwmon powerz USB power meter driver fails to cancel an in-flight USB Request Block (URB) when a process is interrupted by a signal mid-read, resulting in reads from an unfilled DMA transfer buffer that can cause denial of service and potentially expose stale kernel buffer contents. Affected since commit 4381a36abdf1c5c0323c1c51f869dc000115eb20 and patched in stable releases 6.12.86, 7.0.4, and 6.18.27. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting both the niche hardware dependency and strictly local attack surface; this issue is not listed in CISA KEV.
Out-of-bounds heap read in the Linux kernel ntfs3 driver's run_unpack() function allows a local user to crash the kernel by mounting a crafted NTFS image. The flaw affects multiple stable kernel branches from 5.15 onward, where run list parsing in MFT attributes consumes up to 15 bytes beyond the valid buffer boundary without checking remaining buffer size. No public exploit code exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), but the local denial-of-service impact is A:H and patches are available across all affected stable branches.
KVM nested SVM (AMD virtualization) in the Linux kernel incorrectly marks VMCB_LBR dirty in the guest's vmcb12 during nested VM exit processing, triggering architecturally undefined behavior that results in hypervisor availability loss. Affected are Linux kernels from 5.19 through versions preceding the stable-branch patches at 6.18.27 and 7.0.4. A low-privileged local attacker operating within a nested virtual machine on an AMD SVM-capable host can exploit this to crash or destabilize the host KVM layer. No public exploit and no CISA KEV listing exist; EPSS sits at 0.02% (4th percentile), confirming negligible opportunistic exploitation probability.
Kernel panic in the Linux Ceph filesystem client affects systems running fscrypt-encrypted CephFS on kernel versions 6.18.16-6.18.29, 6.19.6, and 7.0.x prior to 7.0.4. An off-by-one error (CWE-193) in `ceph_wbc->num_ops` during encrypted writeback causes a hard BUG_ON assertion in `ceph_submit_write()`, crashing the kernel when a bounce buffer allocation fails under memory pressure. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02% (4th percentile), but the CVE description contains a precise reproduction recipe, making reliable local triggering straightforward for anyone with write access to an affected encrypted mount.
Deadlock in the Linux kernel's x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) shadow stack implementation can be triggered by a local unprivileged user during signal return, causing a kernel hang and denial of service. The flaw exists in x86 SMP kernels with PER_VMA_LOCK configured where X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK is enabled: holding the mmap read lock while reading the shadow stack signal frame during sigreturn allows a recursive lock acquisition attempt that deadlocks when a concurrent mmap writer is waiting on another CPU. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS exploitation probability is extremely low at 0.02% (5th percentile), but the availability impact is high on affected systems with shadow stack enabled.
Deadlock in the Linux kernel jbd2 journal subsystem can hang filesystems and render systems unresponsive when filesystem blocksize is smaller than the system pagesize. Introduced by commit f76d4c28a46a, the flaw breaks the required folio-then-buffer lock ordering in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke(), causing an ABBA deadlock between concurrent filesystem journal operations and block device writeback. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), consistent with a race-condition kernel bug requiring a non-default configuration that is unlikely to be deliberately weaponized.
IRQ handler cleanup failure in the Linux kernel Intel QAT (Quick Assist Technology) crypto driver for 6xxx-series devices causes kernel resource leaks and availability impact when device probe partially fails. The flaw manifests during adf_dev_up() failure: because pcim_enable_device() registers pcim_msi_release() as a devres action that runs in LIFO order, MSI-X vectors are torn down while IRQ handlers such as 'qat0-bundle0' are still attached, producing remove_proc_entry() warnings and leaking procfs entries. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% (4th percentile) confirms negligible exploitation interest; impact is limited to systems that physically host Intel QAT 6xxx accelerator cards.
Incorrect NextRIP state management in the Linux kernel's KVM nested SVM (nSVM) subsystem causes a denial-of-service condition affecting nested AMD virtualization environments from kernel 5.8 onward. After the first L2 VMRUN completes and NextRIP is updated by the CPU or KVM, a subsequent save/restore cycle incorrectly substitutes the stale current RIP in vmcb02, corrupting virtual machine control block state and crashing the nested guest or KVM subsystem. No active exploitation has been identified (not in CISA KEV, EPSS 0.02% at 4th percentile), and the vulnerability is strictly limited to AMD hosts with nested virtualization configured using NRIPS-disabled L1 guests with injected soft interrupts.
Soft lockup in the Linux kernel's md/raid5 subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to trigger an infinite loop in the raid5d kernel thread, causing a kernel soft lockup and system-wide denial of service on hosts running RAID5 arrays. The fault lies in retry_aligned_read() using the wrong stripe release path when encountering overlapping stripes, permanently starving handle_stripe() of the work item needed to resolve the overlap. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) confirms negligible exploitation probability; however, multiple active stable kernel branches from 3.12 onward are affected and vendor-released patches are confirmed across five fix versions.
Deadlock in the Linux kernel md/raid10 subsystem causes a permanent denial-of-service when NOWAIT IO requests coincide with an array check (resync) operation. The md resync thread becomes permanently stuck because the nr_pending atomic counter underflows to a large negative value, preventing it from ever reaching the zero threshold needed to proceed. Systems running RAID-10 arrays where applications use O_NOWAIT IO (e.g., filesystem writeback paths via ext4) are affected. No public exploit code exists and EPSS is 0.02%, indicating low exploitation probability, but the bug is deterministically reproducible by any local user with IO access to the affected array.
Infinite loop denial-of-service in the Linux kernel ALSA ctxfi audio driver allows a local low-privileged user to hang the kernel by triggering S/PDIF passthrough playback at 32000 Hz on Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi hardware. The root cause is an uninitialized `pll_rate` field that causes a resource-calculation loop to never exit, consuming CPU indefinitely and degrading or halting system availability. No public exploit exists and the EPSS score of 0.02% (5th percentile) confirms negligible real-world exploitation pressure; the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.
USB device reference count leak in the Linux kernel ALSA CAIAQ driver allows a local attacker with access to USB hardware to trigger kernel memory exhaustion. The flaw exists because usb_get_dev() is called in create_card() but its matching usb_put_dev() is only installed as a destructor late in init_card(), leaving it unreachable on all intermediate failure paths. Syzbot has reproduced the issue using a malformed UAC3 USB audio device, and patches are available across all affected stable kernel branches. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is negligible at 0.02%.
Two kernel heap memory leaks in Linux kernel's weighted interleave NUMA memory policy subsystem allow a local low-privilege user to exhaust kernel memory and cause denial of service. The `weighted_interleave_auto_store()` function in `mm/mempolicy.c` fails to free `new_wi_state` on an early-return path and fails to free the old state object when overwritten via `rcu_assign_pointer()` when processing 'true' writes, because `old_wi_state` is only fetched inside the wrong conditional branch. The second leak is trivially automatable - any authorized sysfs writer can loop-write '1' indefinitely to drive the system into OOM - though no public exploit exists and EPSS sits at a negligible 0.02%.
Denial-of-service via kernel panic in the Linux kernel's greybus gb-beagleplay driver allows a local low-privileged user to crash the system by triggering an illegal sleep-in-atomic-context condition. The greybus HDLC TX path calls usleep_range() inside hdlc_append() while the tx_producer_lock spinlock is held, violating the fundamental Linux kernel rule that sleeping is forbidden in atomic context and triggering a 'BUG: scheduling while atomic' kernel oops. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) reflects the hardware-specific and local-access-only nature of this flaw. The input tag 'Information Disclosure' appears to be a misclassification - the actual impact is exclusively availability (kernel crash), consistent with the CVSS vector's A:H/C:N/I:N ratings.
Lock re-entrancy corruption in the Linux kernel's mm/page_alloc subsystem affects uniprocessor (UP/!CONFIG_SMP) builds, allowing freelist corruption that crashes the kernel. On UP kernels, spin_trylock() is a compile-time no-op that unconditionally succeeds; when alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() is invoked from NMI context, it re-enters rmqueue() and acquires the zone lock already held by the interrupted context, corrupting the page allocator's freelists. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at the 4th percentile (0.02%), consistent with the narrow scope: only non-default UP kernel builds on specific kernel versions are affected, making this a targeted stability concern for embedded or legacy uniprocessor deployments rather than a broad production threat.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel vfio/cdx subsystem allows a local low-privileged user with access to a CDX VFIO device to crash the kernel by issuing an out-of-order ioctl sequence. Specifically, calling VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS with DATA_BOOL or DATA_NONE flags before ever initializing MSI interrupts via the EVENTFD path dereferences an unallocated cdx_irqs pointer, producing a kernel panic and denial-of-service. No public exploit code exists and EPSS is 0.02%, but vendor-released patches are confirmed available across all affected stable branches.
Nested SVM virtualization in the Linux kernel KVM subsystem can leave the host hypervisor (L1) running with corrupted page-table state when CR3 restoration fails during a nested #VMEXIT. The root function nested_svm_vmexit() returns an error code that most callers silently ignore, meaning the host continues executing against corrupt address-space mappings rather than triggering the shutdown behavior mandated by the AMD Architecture Programmer's Manual. The fix injects a triple fault - mirroring real hardware behavior - and continues cleanup to avoid leaving vCPU state partially torn down. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, but the availability impact is high for any host running nested AMD virtualization.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's EDAC/versalnet driver (mc_probe()) results in unreleased device_node references, enabling local low-privileged users to cause kernel memory exhaustion and availability degradation on AMD/Xilinx Versal SoC systems. The root cause is a missing of_node_put() call on all exit paths of mc_probe(), with the fix applied across stable branches including 6.18.27 and 7.0.4. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists, and EPSS sits at 0.02% (4th percentile), reflecting minimal active exploitation risk.
Improper resource deregistration ordering in the Linux kernel's spi/rspi (Renesas SPI controller) driver causes a local denial-of-service condition during driver unbind. The rspi driver releases DMA resources before deregistering the SPI controller, creating a window where in-flight controller operations can reference freed memory, resulting in a kernel crash or panic. With CVSS availability impact rated High and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile), this is a low-probability but locally exploitable stability issue affecting systems with Renesas SPI hardware. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's drm/xe Intel Xe GPU driver allows a local, low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly triggering DMA buffer import failures, leading to denial of service. The bug resides in xe_dma_buf_init_obj(), where a pre-allocated buffer object (bo) is not freed when drm_gpuvm_resv_object_alloc() fails, due to ambiguous ownership semantics between the caller and callee on error paths. No public exploit exists and EPSS probability is extremely low at 0.02% (4th percentile), placing this in the maintenance-priority category rather than urgent remediation for most environments.
An A-A (same-task) deadlock in the Linux kernel cgroup rmdir path (versions 7.0 through 7.1-rc2 and 6.19.x) can permanently hang the entire system, requiring a hard reboot. When a process acting as both a PID namespace zombie reaper (e.g., systemd/PID 1) and the cgroup rmdir(2) caller encounters dying tasks still linked to cgroup csets, the kernel blocks the reaper indefinitely in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, creating a circular dependency from which the system cannot recover. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, EPSS exploitation probability is extremely low (0.02%), and no CISA KEV listing exists - consistent with the scenario's narrow, operationally specific triggering conditions.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's Rockchip RKCIF (Camera Interface) media driver crashes the kernel when a local user enables streaming on a video device with no connected subdevice. Affected systems are Rockchip SoC-based platforms running Linux kernel versions from the introduction of the rkcif driver up through 6.19. A low-privileged local attacker can trigger a kernel panic - full denial of service - via the standard V4L2 VIDIOC_STREAMON ioctl. No public exploit code exists and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; EPSS of 0.02% (5th percentile) reflects the narrow hardware-specific attack surface.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's EDAC/versalnet driver allows a local low-privileged user to gradually exhaust kernel heap memory, rated CVSS 5.5 with high availability impact. The flaw exists in init_one_mc() where a kzalloc()-allocated device name string becomes permanently unreachable after device_register() copies and nullifies the pointer, preventing any subsequent free on device removal. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS at 0.02% (4th percentile) confirms this is a low-exploitation-probability defect rather than an actively targeted vulnerability.
Kernel panic via reachable assertion in the Linux kernel's AMDGPU SDMA v4 driver allows a local low-privileged user to crash the system by submitting crafted GPU command buffers. The sdma_v4_0_ring_emit_fence() function contains BUG_ON() assertions verifying dword-alignment of fence writeback addresses; these assertions are reachable through the DRM_IOCTL_AMDGPU_CS ioctl from unprivileged userspace, causing a fatal panic in a kernel scheduler worker thread. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% reflects low exploitation likelihood, but the impact on shared GPU compute systems warrants prompt patching.
Integer overflow in the AMDGPU VCN4 (Video Core Next 4) multimedia driver within the Linux kernel allows a local low-privileged user to cause a kernel denial of service. The bounds check on incoming messages to the VCN4 encoder/decoder engine contains an overflow-vulnerable condition, meaning a crafted message can bypass intended size validation. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS places exploitation probability at the 5th percentile, indicating very low real-world exploitation likelihood currently.
Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's Intel Xe DRM HDCP GSC subsystem allows a local, low-privileged user to crash the kernel when media GT is disabled via configfs. The function `intel_hdcp_gsc_check_status()` evaluates `>->uc.gsc` without first verifying that `media_gt` is non-NULL, producing a kernel pagefault on systems where media GT has been explicitly disabled through the configfs interface. Exploitation yields a denial of service (kernel panic) with no confidentiality or integrity impact; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS probability is 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating very low exploitation likelihood in the wild.
Denial-of-service via accept queue counter leak in the Linux kernel's vsock/virtio subsystem allows an authenticated local attacker to permanently exhaust a listener socket's backlog, causing it to reject all new connections. The flaw exists from kernel 5.5 onward in virtio_transport_recv_listen(), where sk_acceptq_added() is called before vsock_assign_transport() validation; failed transport assignments never call the paired sk_acceptq_removed(), permanently inflating sk_ack_backlog. No public exploit exists and EPSS is at the 5th percentile, but the impact in multi-tenant virtualized environments relying on vsock communication is a complete denial of vsock listener service.
NULL pointer dereference and silent error suppression in the Linux kernel's Qualcomm MSM DRM/GEM subsystem allows a low-privileged local user to crash the kernel (denial of service) via a crafted GEM_INFO ioctl call. The msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata() function unconditionally returns 0 on error and fails to check kmemdup() for a NULL return, enabling a dereference in the subsequent copy_to_user() call. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting minimal real-world exploitation pressure despite the confirmed availability of upstream patch commits.
Uninitialized socket buffer data exposure in the Linux kernel's vsock/virtio transport layer (6.7 and later) corrupts vsockmon tap monitoring output when non-linear skbs are in use. The `virtio_transport_copy_nonlinear_skb()` function constructs an `iov_iter` without setting `iov_iter.count`, causing zero-length copies that leave skb payloads uninitialized on the monitor interface - potentially exposing stale kernel memory to vsockmon consumers. Patched stable releases 6.12.90, 6.18.32, and 7.0.9 are available; no public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02% (5th percentile), placing real-world exploitation risk very low but warranting attention in environments actively using vsockmon debugging.
Kernel crash (denial of service) in the Linux kernel's hid-appletb-kbd driver results from calling a mutex-acquiring function from softirq and IRQ atomic contexts on Apple Touch Bar MacBooks running Linux. Authenticated local attackers with low privileges can trigger a kernel BUG by inducing Touch Bar inactivity or generating HID events that exercise the broken brightness-reset path, crashing the system. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS is 0.02% (4th percentile), reflecting the niche hardware requirement; patches are available in kernel versions 6.18.32, 7.0.9, and 7.1-rc4.
Denial-of-service via improper resource teardown ordering in the Linux kernel's MPC52xx SPI controller driver (spi/mpc52xx) affects systems running PowerPC-based embedded hardware. During driver unbind, the SPI controller was deregistered after - rather than before - disabling underlying resources such as interrupts and GPIOs, creating a window where the kernel could access freed or disabled resources and trigger a system crash. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and with an EPSS of 0.02% (5th percentile), real-world exploitation is assessed as very low probability.
Kernel panic via race condition in the f2fs filesystem extent node management affects Linux kernel across multiple stable branches. When f2fs_destroy_extent_node() is invoked from f2fs_drop_inode() with I_SYNC set, a concurrent kworker writeback thread can insert new extent nodes into the same extent tree between lock releases, causing node_cnt to become non-zero upon loop exit and triggering f2fs_bug_on() - a deliberate kernel assertion failure resulting in a system crash. A secondary gap leaves EX_BLOCK_AGE extent tree updates completely unprotected by the FI_NO_EXTENT flag check, compounding the race surface. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating low exploitation probability in the near term.
Denial of service in the Linux kernel's Microchip Core QSPI driver corrupts SPI transfers on systems using this controller. The spi-microchip-core-qspi driver incorrectly attempts to transmit garbage data during emulated read-only dual/quad SPI operations - a protocol violation, since QSPI lacks a dedicated MOSI line and the core hardware is expected to generate read clock cycles autonomously. The result is a bricked (permanently failed) SPI transfer, causing availability loss for any kernel component or userspace process depending on that SPI bus. No public exploit exists and EPSS probability is 0.02%, consistent with a hardware-specific, locally-triggered driver defect.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's octeon_ep_vf driver crashes the kernel when napi_build_skb() fails during memory allocation in the receive path. Systems running kernels from the introduction of the octeon_ep_vf driver (commit 1cd3b407977c) through multiple stable branches are affected where Marvell Octeon EP VF network adapters are in use. A local, low-privileged attacker who can induce memory pressure while network traffic flows through an Octeon EP VF interface can trigger a kernel panic, resulting in full system unavailability. No public exploit code exists, EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), and this vulnerability has not been added to CISA KEV.
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel's RSI (Redpine Signals) WiFi driver allows a local low-privileged attacker to crash the kernel by exploiting a race condition between kthread self-exit and external stop operations. When `kthread_complete_and_exit` races ahead of `kthread_stop`, the already-freed task struct is dereferenced, causing a kernel denial of service. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting very low real-world exploitation probability; the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.
Uninitialized memory read in Linux kernel's Bluetooth virtio_bt driver allows a malicious or compromised virtio backend to trigger kernel DoS and potential information disclosure against guest VMs. The driver's virtbt_rx_handle() function fails to validate that received RX socket buffers contain sufficient bytes to cover the fixed HCI header for the declared packet type before forwarding to hci_recv_frame(). A backend-supplied one-byte completion with type HCI_ACLDATA_PKT causes the ACL classification path in hci_dev_classify_pkt_type() to dereference hci_acl_hdr(skb)->handle on an empty buffer when the HCI device holds an active CIS_LINK, BIS_LINK, or PA_LINK connection, reading two bytes of uninitialized RX-buffer data. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), consistent with a kernel subsystem bug requiring privileged backend access in a virtualized environment.
Division by zero in the Linux kernel's ua101 USB audio driver allows a local attacker to crash the kernel by presenting a crafted USB device with a malformed audio class descriptor. The ua101 driver's `detect_usb_format()` function fails to validate the `bNrChannels` field before use, so a device reporting `bNrChannels = 0` causes `frame_bytes` to become zero, which is subsequently used as a divisor in both `playback_urb_complete()` and `capture_urb_complete()` URB handlers, triggering a fatal kernel panic. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), but the vulnerability affects multiple supported stable branches and patches are available across all of them.
Kernel stack memory disclosure in the Linux kernel's pseries/papr-hvpipe driver exposes up to 43 bytes of uninitialized stack data to unprivileged local users on IBM Power (pseries) systems. The `struct papr_hvpipe_hdr` reserved padding fields (`reserved[3]` and `reserved2[40]`) are never zeroed before `copy_to_user()` copies the full structure to userspace, allowing a local attacker to harvest stale kernel stack contents - potentially including ASLR offsets or residual cryptographic material. No public exploit exists and no CISA KEV listing applies; EPSS at 0.02% (4th percentile) reflects low exploitation probability consistent with the narrow pseries-only deployment scope. Vendor-released patches are confirmed in stable branches 6.18.30, 7.0.7, and 7.1-rc3.
Divide-by-zero in the Linux kernel ASoC SOF compressed audio subsystem allows a low-privileged local user to crash the kernel by querying stream pointer position before stream parameters are configured. Affected are Linux kernel stable branches 6.6 through 7.0 (pre-patch), all running on hardware with SOF audio drivers loaded. No active exploitation has been confirmed - EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile) and the vulnerability is absent from CISA KEV - making this a medium-severity availability risk relevant primarily to multi-user desktop and embedded audio platforms.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's RISC-V KVM vector context allocation allows a local low-privileged attacker to exhaust kernel memory, causing denial of service on RISC-V hypervisor hosts. The flaw exists in kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context() where a failed second kzalloc call (host_context.vector.datap) returns an error without freeing the first allocation (guest_context.vector.datap), accumulating unreleased kernel memory across repeated vCPU creation attempts. No public exploit exists and no active exploitation is confirmed; EPSS at 0.02% (4th percentile) reflects the narrow RISC-V KVM deployment surface.
Scheduling-while-atomic kernel panic in the Linux kernel MPTCP subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to crash the host by setting timestamp socket options on an MPTCP socket. The defect stems from invoking sleepable helpers - sock_set_timestamp() and sock_set_timestamping() - inside the atomic context established by lock_sock_fast(), violating the kernel's non-sleeping constraint for spinlock holders. No public exploit code has been identified and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating negligible real-world exploitation probability at this time. Note: the 'Information Disclosure' tag applied by some sources appears incorrect - the actual impact is limited to availability (kernel panic/crash) with no confidentiality or integrity consequence per the CVSS vector.
Uninitialized heap memory in the Linux kernel's usblp USB printer driver leaks a stale kernel byte to userspace through the LPGETSTATUS ioctl when a malicious or non-compliant USB printer returns zero bytes to a one-byte status request. Affected branches span kernel versions from 2.6.12 through 6.18.x, 7.0.x, and 7.1-rc3, with fixes available in stable releases 6.6.140, 6.12.88, 6.18.30, and 7.0.7. No public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02% (5th percentile); exploitation requires local access, a cooperating malicious USB device, and access to the printer device node - substantially narrowing real-world risk despite the breadth of affected kernel versions.
OpenVSwitch tunnel port removal in the Linux kernel triggers a self-deadlock that permanently hangs the kernel's RTNL lock, causing a denial of service requiring system reboot. The flaw affects systems across multiple stable kernel branches (6.6.x, 6.12.x, 6.18.x, 7.0.x) where OVS tunnel vports (VXLAN, GRE, GENEVE) are actively managed. Patched versions are available across all affected stable branches; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 0.02% (5th percentile) indicates negligible observed exploitation probability.
Divide-by-zero in the Linux kernel's md/raid10 subsystem allows a local authenticated user to crash the kernel by supplying a zero far_copies value when configuring a RAID10 array with the 'improved' far set layout. The affected function setup_geo() performs the division geo->far_set_size = disks / fc without first validating that fc is non-zero, triggering a kernel oops or panic and producing a high availability impact. EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile) and this CVE is not listed in CISA KEV, consistent with the local-only, configuration-specific attack vector and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
Kernel panic (ADE - Address Error for Memory access) in the LoongArch-specific PCI fixup function loongson_gpu_fixup_dma_hang() crashes systems that boot with a discrete Loongson GPU whose PCI device ID does not match any handled case in the switch statement. The missing default case causes readl() to be called with a garbage MMIO address derived from uninitialized register state, resulting in a hard kernel panic at boot time (PID 1, swapper/0) and rendering the system unavailable. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), consistent with a hardware-specific local DoS requiring no attacker interaction.
Memory exhaustion in the Linux kernel's 8021q VLAN subsystem allows a local user with low privileges to cause denial-of-service by repeatedly manipulating VLAN egress QoS priority mappings. The function `vlan_dev_set_egress_priority()` retains cleared priority entries as unreachable tombstones in the kernel hash table across set/clear cycles, accumulating until device teardown and leaking kernel memory. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02% at the 5th percentile, indicating negligible real-world exploitation interest; however, the High availability impact in CVSS reflects potential OOM-triggered system instability on affected hosts.
Heap memory disclosure in the Linux kernel usblp USB printer driver allows a local attacker with a malicious USB printer to expose up to 1021 bytes of uninitialized kmalloc heap to userspace. The driver's usblp_cache_device_id_string() blindly trusts a device-supplied 2-byte big-endian length prefix in the IEEE 1284 GET_DEVICE_ID response, leaking stale kernel heap contents via the ieee1284_id sysfs attribute and the IOCNR_GET_DEVICE_ID ioctl. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile) and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, but vendor patches are confirmed across multiple stable kernel branches.
Incorrect hardware chip-select management in the Linux kernel spi/microchip-core-qspi driver causes the built-in hardware CS line to assert spuriously during SPI transactions directed at GPIO-managed chip selects on multi-device coreQSPI controllers. Systems using Microchip coreQSPI IP hardware with two or more attached SPI devices - where at least one device uses the built-in hardware CS - are subject to unintended bus assertion that can crash or disrupt SPI-dependent peripherals, producing a high-availability impact. No public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02% (4th percentile), consistent with the narrow embedded-hardware topology required for manifestation; the vulnerability is not in CISA KEV.
Two distinct bugs in the Linux kernel's pKVM (protected KVM) arm64 vCPU initialization path allow a local low-privileged user to cause persistent resource pin leaks and observe partially initialized memory objects. The pin leak (Bug 1) occurs when an error path in __pkvm_init_vcpu() jumps to cleanup without releasing hyp_pin_shared_mem() references on host vCPU and SVE state pages, permanently exhausting pin references and ultimately degrading or crashing the hypervisor subsystem. A separate memory ordering flaw (Bug 2) uses a bare store to publish the vCPU pointer into hyp_vm->vcpus[], allowing a concurrent pkvm_load_hyp_vcpu() caller to read a partially initialized vCPU object. No active exploitation has been identified and EPSS is 0.02%, consistent with a kernel subsystem bug affecting a specialized configuration rather than a broadly targeted attack surface.
Denial of service in the Linux kernel ALSA USB audio subsystem allows a local attacker to hang a CPU core indefinitely by presenting a malformed USB audio class v3 channel map descriptor. The affected function `convert_chmap_v3()` uses the descriptor field `cs_desc->wLength` as a loop increment without validating it, so a zero-length descriptor causes an unescapable infinite loop that saturates a CPU core until the process is killed or the system rebooted. No active exploitation has been confirmed - the vulnerability is absent from CISA KEV, and the EPSS score of 0.02% at the 5th percentile indicates negligible current attacker interest.
Resource leak in the Linux kernel's RDMA/mana driver allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel resources via a missing cleanup in the error unwind path of mana_ib_create_qp_rss(). The Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) InfiniBand subsystem fails to release mana_ib_cfg_vport_steering() allocations when QP RSS creation fails mid-flight, while the normal destroy path handles cleanup correctly - leaving the error path mismatched. No public exploit is identified and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting very low real-world exploitation probability, though patches are confirmed available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's Qualcomm ASoC q6apm-lpass-dai audio driver allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly invoking the ALSA prepare callback, which opens multiple APM graphs on the playback path without corresponding release. Affected systems are limited to those running Qualcomm LPASS audio hardware across several Linux stable branches (6.6.x, 6.9.x, 6.10, 6.12.x). No public exploit exists and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) reflects negligible real-world exploitation interest; the practical impact is local denial of service on Qualcomm SoC-equipped devices.
System hang vulnerability in the Linux kernel's libwx (WangXun) network driver affects systems using SR-IOV Virtual Functions. During VF initialization, the driver attempts to read register WX_CFG_PORT_ST, which is restricted to Physical Functions only; this illegal register access causes the system to hang, resulting in a complete denial of service. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, but any system running a WangXun NIC with SR-IOV enabled and attaching a VF is directly exposed.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's powerpc XIVE interrupt subsystem causes progressive kernel heap exhaustion on IBM POWER9+ systems when MSI-X vectors are allocated and then freed for PCI devices such as NVMe controllers. The regression was introduced by commit cc0cc23babc9 which refactored the XIVE/child interrupt controller relationship: xive_irq_free_data() subsequently used the wrong domain lookup path, causing every allocated struct xive_irq_data (64 bytes) to be orphaned on irqdomain teardown. No public exploit is identified and EPSS stands at 0.02% (4th percentile), consistent with the narrow hardware-specific scope and local-only access requirement.
The Linux kernel SMB client transmits uninitialized kernel heap data in the reserved Sbz2 field of Windows ACL security descriptors to remote Samba servers, causing chmod operations on SMB-mounted filesystems to fail with EINVAL. This regression was introduced by commit 62e7dd0a39c2d, which split a struct field but left a newly created 2-byte reserved field unpopulated due to use of kmalloc() instead of kzalloc(). No public exploit exists (EPSS 0.02%, no KEV listing); the practical impact is an operational disruption of file permission management on Samba-backed mounts, with a secondary minor information disclosure of heap contents to the remote server.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's cros_ec_typec driver crashes the kernel when a Thunderbolt alternate mode operation is processed on affected ChromeOS devices. The flaw originates in cros_typec_register_thunderbolt(), which allocates the adata structure but omits mutex_init(&adata->lock); when cros_typec_altmode_work() later acquires that uninitialized mutex, the kernel dereferences a NULL or garbage pointer and panics. No public exploit code exists and EPSS of 0.02% (4th percentile) reflects the narrow hardware prerequisite and strictly local-only attack surface; the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.
Availability impact in Linux Kernel KVM's x86 nested virtualization subsystem allows a low-privileged user operating within an L2 (nested) guest to trigger a host kernel denial-of-service via incorrect hypercall handling. The root cause is an incorrect guard condition in slow-flush hypercall paths: KVM checks `is_guest_mode(vcpu)` before calling `translate_nested_gpa()`, but that translation function is only valid when the L2 guest is running with nested EPT/NPT actually enabled - not merely when guest mode is active. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS exploitation probability is 0.02% (5th percentile). Vendor-released patches are available across multiple stable branches.
Denial-of-service in the Linux kernel IPMI subsystem allows a system crash when the BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) returns a malformed empty event message buffer instead of a proper error code. The kernel's IPMI driver defers response size validation to later processing stages rather than checking immediately upon receipt, causing it to process invalid data from certain non-compliant BMC firmware. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile); the trigger is hardware-driven misbehavior rather than deliberate attacker input, but the availability impact is high (kernel panic). Patched kernel versions are available across multiple stable branches.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's RDMA/ocrdma driver crashes systems running Emulex OneConnect RDMA adapters. The flaw exists in `ocrdma_copy_pd_uresp()`, where error-path code dereferences `pd->uctx` before it is initialized, producing a kernel panic and complete system unavailability when triggered. No public exploit code has been identified and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting very low exploitation probability at this time; however, the local low-privilege vector means any unprivileged user on an affected system with ocrdma hardware present could trigger the crash.
Improper error-path cleanup in the RDMA/mana driver's `mana_ib_create_qp_rss()` function allows a local low-privileged user on Azure VMs with Microsoft MANA NICs to crash the kernel. Two logic bugs in the WQ table unwind - a redundant `i--` that skips a cleanup iteration, and a missed `mana_destroy_wq_obj()` call when `mana_ib_install_cq_cb()` fails - leave kernel objects in a dangling state, producing a high-availability (DoS) impact. No public exploit exists and EPSS is at the 5th percentile; this vulnerability is not in CISA KEV.
Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's pseries/papr-hvpipe subsystem crashes IBM POWER/pSeries hosts via a local ioctl call. The flaw was introduced by commit 6d3789d347a7, which refactored papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() to use FD_PREPARE() but left src_info accessible after retain_and_null_ptr() nulled it, causing a write to address 0x0 when the pointer is subsequently used in the global list insertion path. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access on pSeries hardware; no public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, indicating negligible opportunistic exploitation risk.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel USB ULPI subsystem allows a local low-privilege attacker to gradually exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly triggering registration failures in the ulpi_register() function. A prior fix for a double-free (commit 01af542392b5) removed the kfree(ulpi) call on the device_register() failure path but inadvertently left the allocation unreleased when ulpi_of_register() or ulpi_read_id() fail before device_register() is ever reached. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, indicating minimal real-world exploitation pressure; however, patched kernel stable releases are available across all supported branches.
Denial of service in the Linux kernel's IPMI SI (System Interface) driver results from improper state machine recovery when message allocation fails, leaving the driver stuck in a non-normal state and rendering the IPMI subsystem non-functional. Locally authenticated users with low privileges on affected systems with an active ipmi_si module can trigger this condition, typically under memory-pressure scenarios. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) confirms negligible exploitation interest, and patches are available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Three concurrent race conditions in the Linux kernel's eventfs subsystem (tracefs) can be triggered during remount operations, leading to kernel denial-of-service via LIST_POISON1 pointer dereference or use-after-free. Systems running affected kernel versions with tracefs mounted are vulnerable when a local user with sufficient privilege simultaneously remounts the filesystem while kprobe events are being added or removed. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) indicates very low observed exploitation probability.
SELinux socket permission helpers in the Linux kernel misread security blob data in stacked LSM configurations, causing kernel crashes or incorrect AVC (Access Vector Cache) decisions. Specifically, sock_has_perm() and nlmsg_sock_has_extended_perms() dereference sk->sk_security directly under the assumption that the SELinux blob always sits at offset zero, which fails when another LSM allocates socket blob storage ahead of SELinux in a stacked configuration. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, EPSS is 0.02%, and patches are available for Linux 6.18.30 and 7.0.7.
Keycloak's ClientRegistrationAuth component can be crashed by a remote unauthenticated attacker through a specially crafted POST request bearing a malformed 'Authorization: Bearer' header, triggering an unhandled ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException and returning HTTP 500 to all subsequent callers of the affected endpoint. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms zero prerequisites for exploitation beyond network reachability, making any publicly exposed Keycloak client registration endpoint a viable target. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and no EPSS data was supplied, but the trivial attack mechanics mean no specialized tooling is required to reproduce the denial of service.
Refresh token replay in Keycloak allows a remote attacker who has previously captured a user's refresh token to reuse that token after it has been revoked, bypassing session expiration controls. The vulnerability surfaces specifically when revokeRefreshToken=true is configured alongside persistent session storage, and is triggered by a server restart that resets the internal timing mechanisms responsible for enforcing token revocation. Successful exploitation can yield full account takeover, information disclosure, or privilege escalation; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the CVE does not appear in CISA KEV.
Denial of service in Keycloak's LDAP federation layer allows an authenticated realm administrator - or an attacker who has compromised an upstream LDAP server - to crash the entire Keycloak JVM by inducing an OutOfMemoryError through a malformed LDAP password policy response. Because Keycloak typically serves multiple realms from a single JVM process, a successful attack denies service to all realms on the affected node, not just the targeted one. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Keycloak's Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA) flow fails to enforce brute-force account lockouts, allowing an attacker with valid OAuth client credentials to continue initiating authentication requests and obtain tokens for a user account that should be temporarily locked. This undermines the core account-protection mechanism designed to throttle credential-stuffing and password-guessing campaigns. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, though its CVSS score of 4.3 understates the strategic value of bypassing a lockout policy in an identity provider.
User impersonation in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2 allows an authenticated attacker to obtain a valid Keystone token attributed to an arbitrary victim user by exploiting a missing ownership check in the application credential authentication plugin. The attacker supplies their own application credential ID and secret while embedding a different user's name and domain in the request body, and Keystone issues a project-scoped token carrying the intersection of the attacker's application credential roles and the victim's project roles. This enables audit log evasion, exposure of the victim's credentials, and unauthorized action within shared OpenStack projects. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
OpenStack Keystone's federated token rescoping mechanism allows authenticated federated users to indefinitely extend their session beyond operator-configured token lifetime policies by repeatedly calling POST /v3/auth/tokens before each token expires. The root cause is that handle_scoped_token() in the mapped authentication plugin omits the expires_at field from its response, causing the token provider to silently issue a fresh default-TTL token instead of inheriting the original token's expiry. This effectively renders token lifetime enforcement inoperative for all SAML2 and OpenID Connect-backed federated deployments running Keystone versions prior to 29.0.2. No public exploit code exists and this is not listed in CISA KEV, but the technique is trivially repeatable by any valid federated user.
Incorrect authorization in Apache ActiveMQ Artemis allows authenticated STOMP protocol clients to modify address routing-type settings without sufficient privilege checks. Affects Artemis versions through 2.44.0 and 2.53.0 respectively, the flaw (CWE-863) permits low-privileged network users to alter broker address routing configuration, impacting message routing integrity. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and CISA KEV listing is absent, placing this in a monitor-and-patch priority tier rather than emergency response.
Null pointer dereference in Wireshark's ROHC protocol dissector causes application crashes across two active release branches, constituting a denial-of-service condition. Affected versions span Wireshark 4.6.0 through 4.6.5 and 4.4.0 through 4.4.15; patched releases 4.6.6 and 4.4.16 are available per the vendor advisory wnpa-sec-2026-51. The attack vector is local with required user interaction (CVSS AV:L/UI:R), meaning exploitation requires a victim to open a specially crafted packet capture file - no remote or automated exploitation path exists, and no public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the RabbitMQ Management Plugin web UI allows a high-privileged authenticated attacker to inject malicious script content that executes in the browser of another administrative user viewing the affected page. Affected deployments span RabbitMQ Server 3.7.0 through 4.0.12 and 4.1.0-alpha through 4.1.1. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis; however, successful exploitation can result in high confidentiality impact, consistent with session token theft or credential harvesting within the management console.
We are tasked with synthesizing data from multiple intelligence sources about CVE-2026-44838 into a comprehensive analysis, returned as a JSON object. The instructions are very specific: every field must be a plain text string, a coherent paragraph, not an array or object. We need to cross-reference all provided data. Let's extract key information: - Product: RabbitMQ (from description: "RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.2.0 to before 4.2.4, RabbitMQ's MQTT plugin allows..."). In CPE: cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:rabbitmq_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* so product_name: "RabbitMQ" (as the broker). Or "RabbitMQ Server"? The description says "RabbitMQ" but product_name should be 1-3 words only, specific product. Use "RabbitMQ". I'll use "RabbitMQ". - Summary: Needs to be 2-3 sentence plain-language synthesis. Must not start with "A vulnerability..." etc. Start with specific impact verb and product. So: "Authorization bypass in RabbitMQ MQTT plugin allows authenticated users to escape regex topic restrictions." The vulnerability: regex injection due to unescaped client_id. Impact: bypass topic-level authorization, read/write to topics they shouldn't. Affected versions: 4.2.0 to before 4.2.4. Fixed in 4.2.4 and 4.3.0. No active exploitation indicated (KEV not listed, only SSVC exploitation none). EPSS 0.04% low. Patch available. So summary: "Authorization bypass in RabbitMQ's MQTT plugin (versions 4.2.0 to 4.2.3) enables authenticated MQTT users to inject regex operators into topic authorization patterns, gaining unauthorized access to messaging topics. Exploitation is not yet observed in the wild (CISA KEV not listed), and EPSS indicates low probability, but a patch is available in versions 4.2.4 and 4.3.0." That's good, mentions specific impact, product, versions, exploitation, patch. - technical_context: Underlying technology: RabbitMQ MQTT plugin, regex pattern matching with variable substitution for topic authorization. CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization, so root c
Heap buffer overflow in libjxl 0.12.0 lets remote attackers corrupt heap memory by feeding a crafted PBM/PNM image to the jxl::extras::DecodeImagePNM routine, which writes decoded rows into an output buffer without first checking that the buffer is large enough for the header-declared dimensions. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) describes unauthenticated, low-complexity exploitation with no user interaction, and CISA's SSVC framework rates it automatable with partial technical impact. Publicly available exploit code exists, though it is not listed in CISA KEV and no public exploit has been tied to active exploitation.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's CAN UCAN USB driver allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly triggering driver unbind cycles without physical device disconnection. The flaw (CWE-401) exists because devres-managed buffers are incorrectly scoped to the parent USB device rather than the USB interface, so they are never released during software-initiated unbind events such as probe deferral or configuration changes. No public exploit code exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating near-zero real-world exploitation probability despite the CVSS Availability: High rating.
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel CAIF networking subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel via a double invocation of caif_free_client(). The CAIF socket layer in caif_connect() can tear down a client on remote shutdown, freeing the service object via adap_layer->dn but leaving that pointer stale; when the socket is later destroyed, caif_sock_destructor() dereferences the already-freed pointer, triggering a NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) and kernel oops. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), but vendor-released patches are available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's TPM2 session subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory over time via repeated invocations of the vulnerable tpm2_read_public() function. The function allocates a kernel buffer via tpm_buf_init() but fails to call tpm_buf_destroy() on both its success path and its error path triggered by an unrecognized hash algorithm, leaking a page allocation each time. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 0.02% at the 4th percentile reflects very low real-world exploitation probability.
Race condition in the Linux kernel's md/md-llbitmap subsystem can cause availability loss on systems using software RAID with bitmap tracking. The barrier raise in llbitmap_start_write() and llbitmap_start_discard() occurs after the state machine transition is initiated, creating a window where concurrent state changes proceed without synchronization - potentially crashing the RAID subsystem or rendering an md array unavailable. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 0.02% (4th percentile) reflects negligible automated exploitation risk. Patches are available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Denial of service in the Linux kernel's igorplugusb infrared remote control driver allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel on systems where a compatible USB IR receiver is connected and the host controller performs DMA on control requests. The igorplugusb driver failed to allocate the USB control request structure separately, violating DMA coherency requirements enforced by certain host controllers - an object allocated on the kernel stack or embedded in a larger structure is not guaranteed to be DMA-safe. No public exploit code exists, and EPSS of 0.02% confirms negligible exploitation interest. Vendor-released patches are available across multiple stable branches.
The zram compressed-RAM block device driver in the Linux kernel hangs processes indefinitely when partial discard requests are submitted on systems where the discard granularity is smaller than the system page size (e.g., 4K discards on ARM64 systems with 64K pages). The driver correctly identifies partial discards as unsupported and returns early, but omits calling bio_endio(), leaving submit_bio_wait() blocked forever. Exploitation requires local access to a zram device with low privileges; no public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, consistent with a niche local denial-of-service. Patches are available across multiple stable kernel branches.
Kernel panic via exhausted buffer in the ALSA control subsystem affects Linux kernel builds compiled with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE and Clang, allowing a local low-privileged user to crash the system. The function snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names() fails to guard against a zero buf_len before invoking strnlen(), and Clang's fortified strnlen fires a BRK exception when it cannot determine the object size of the advanced pointer p inside the loop - panicking the kernel before the intended error-path return. Discovered through kernel fuzz testing on Xiaomi Smartphone hardware; no public exploit and no KEV listing; EPSS is 0.02%.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's DAMON statistics subsystem (mm/damon/stat) causes kernel memory exhaustion when damon_start() fails during damon_stat_start(). The allocated DAMON context is never freed on the failure path, and the stale global pointer is overwritten on each subsequent enable attempt, making prior allocations permanently unreachable. Exploitation requires local access with low privileges, yields high availability impact (A:H) via progressive kernel memory exhaustion, and no public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.
Resource leak in the Linux kernel SPI subsystem allows a local low-privileged attacker to exhaust kernel resources and cause denial of service. The flaw affects multiple stable kernel branches (5.4.x through 7.x) and occurs when spi_setup() fails during SPI device registration, leaving resources allocated by setup() unreleased because the controller cleanup() callback is never invoked on the error path. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating very low real-world exploitation probability; this is a stability fix appropriate for routine patching rather than emergency response.
KVM SVM subsystem in the Linux Kernel incorrectly handles the INVLPGA instruction when EFER.SVME=0, failing to inject the required #UD (Undefined Opcode) exception into the guest VM. Systems running AMD hardware virtualization (AMD-V/SVM) under KVM are affected from kernel 2.6.32 through multiple stable branches, with the flaw enabling a low-privileged guest user to trigger a high-severity availability impact. No public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating very low current exploitation probability; however, the kernel maintainers tagged this for stable backports across six separate stable branches, reflecting broad deployment surface.
Credit exhaustion in the OCFS2 DIO completion path of the Linux kernel can cause the JBD2 journaling layer to exceed its maximum transaction credit limit, resulting in kernel warnings and a high-availability denial-of-service condition. Systems running the Linux kernel with the OCFS2 cluster filesystem configured for direct I/O workloads across multiple stable branches (6.6.x, 6.12.x, 6.18.x, 7.0.x) are affected. A local attacker with low privileges and write access to an OCFS2 volume can trigger complex extent tree merges that request more than 5449 JBD2 credits, destabilizing the filesystem journal. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and EPSS sits at the 5th percentile, reflecting very low real-world exploitation probability.
Null-pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's RBD (RADOS Block Device) subsystem crashes the kernel when device_add_disk() fails after device_add() has already succeeded. Systems running Linux kernel with Ceph RBD support enabled are affected across multiple stable branches from the introduction of commit 27c97abc30e2 through the patched releases. A local attacker with sufficient privileges to map RBD images via the sysfs interface can trigger this error path to cause a kernel panic and system-wide denial of service. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV), and the EPSS score of 0.02% at the 5th percentile signals negligible weaponization probability.
Incorrect DMA synchronization direction in the Linux kernel's atmel-tdes crypto driver exposes systems running on non-coherent cache architectures to stale cache data reads. The atmel-tdes driver incorrectly calls dma_sync_single_for_device() instead of dma_sync_single_for_cpu() before the CPU consumes DMA output, causing cache invalidation to be skipped on non-coherent platforms (typically ARM-based Atmel/Microchip SoCs). This means the CPU may read stale cached data rather than actual DES/3DES operation output, producing incorrect cryptographic results and potential information exposure from prior cache contents. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, but hardware-platform specificity limits real-world reach significantly.
Memory leak and potential use-after-free in the Linux kernel's spi-ch341 USB driver expose systems to local denial-of-service when CH341 device probe failures occur without proper resource cleanup. Kernels from the commit introducing the spi-ch341 driver (8846739f52afa07e63395c80227dc544f54bd7b1) through the respective stable-branch fix commits across the 6.11 through 7.0 lineages are affected. Repeated probe failures accumulate leaked kernel memory that can exhaust system resources; no active exploitation is identified (EPSS 0.02%, no CISA KEV listing), placing this firmly in the maintenance-priority rather than incident-response category.
Linux kernel's hwmon powerz USB power meter driver fails to cancel an in-flight USB Request Block (URB) when a process is interrupted by a signal mid-read, resulting in reads from an unfilled DMA transfer buffer that can cause denial of service and potentially expose stale kernel buffer contents. Affected since commit 4381a36abdf1c5c0323c1c51f869dc000115eb20 and patched in stable releases 6.12.86, 7.0.4, and 6.18.27. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting both the niche hardware dependency and strictly local attack surface; this issue is not listed in CISA KEV.
Out-of-bounds heap read in the Linux kernel ntfs3 driver's run_unpack() function allows a local user to crash the kernel by mounting a crafted NTFS image. The flaw affects multiple stable kernel branches from 5.15 onward, where run list parsing in MFT attributes consumes up to 15 bytes beyond the valid buffer boundary without checking remaining buffer size. No public exploit code exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), but the local denial-of-service impact is A:H and patches are available across all affected stable branches.
KVM nested SVM (AMD virtualization) in the Linux kernel incorrectly marks VMCB_LBR dirty in the guest's vmcb12 during nested VM exit processing, triggering architecturally undefined behavior that results in hypervisor availability loss. Affected are Linux kernels from 5.19 through versions preceding the stable-branch patches at 6.18.27 and 7.0.4. A low-privileged local attacker operating within a nested virtual machine on an AMD SVM-capable host can exploit this to crash or destabilize the host KVM layer. No public exploit and no CISA KEV listing exist; EPSS sits at 0.02% (4th percentile), confirming negligible opportunistic exploitation probability.
Kernel panic in the Linux Ceph filesystem client affects systems running fscrypt-encrypted CephFS on kernel versions 6.18.16-6.18.29, 6.19.6, and 7.0.x prior to 7.0.4. An off-by-one error (CWE-193) in `ceph_wbc->num_ops` during encrypted writeback causes a hard BUG_ON assertion in `ceph_submit_write()`, crashing the kernel when a bounce buffer allocation fails under memory pressure. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02% (4th percentile), but the CVE description contains a precise reproduction recipe, making reliable local triggering straightforward for anyone with write access to an affected encrypted mount.
Deadlock in the Linux kernel's x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) shadow stack implementation can be triggered by a local unprivileged user during signal return, causing a kernel hang and denial of service. The flaw exists in x86 SMP kernels with PER_VMA_LOCK configured where X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK is enabled: holding the mmap read lock while reading the shadow stack signal frame during sigreturn allows a recursive lock acquisition attempt that deadlocks when a concurrent mmap writer is waiting on another CPU. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS exploitation probability is extremely low at 0.02% (5th percentile), but the availability impact is high on affected systems with shadow stack enabled.
Deadlock in the Linux kernel jbd2 journal subsystem can hang filesystems and render systems unresponsive when filesystem blocksize is smaller than the system pagesize. Introduced by commit f76d4c28a46a, the flaw breaks the required folio-then-buffer lock ordering in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke(), causing an ABBA deadlock between concurrent filesystem journal operations and block device writeback. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), consistent with a race-condition kernel bug requiring a non-default configuration that is unlikely to be deliberately weaponized.
IRQ handler cleanup failure in the Linux kernel Intel QAT (Quick Assist Technology) crypto driver for 6xxx-series devices causes kernel resource leaks and availability impact when device probe partially fails. The flaw manifests during adf_dev_up() failure: because pcim_enable_device() registers pcim_msi_release() as a devres action that runs in LIFO order, MSI-X vectors are torn down while IRQ handlers such as 'qat0-bundle0' are still attached, producing remove_proc_entry() warnings and leaking procfs entries. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% (4th percentile) confirms negligible exploitation interest; impact is limited to systems that physically host Intel QAT 6xxx accelerator cards.
Incorrect NextRIP state management in the Linux kernel's KVM nested SVM (nSVM) subsystem causes a denial-of-service condition affecting nested AMD virtualization environments from kernel 5.8 onward. After the first L2 VMRUN completes and NextRIP is updated by the CPU or KVM, a subsequent save/restore cycle incorrectly substitutes the stale current RIP in vmcb02, corrupting virtual machine control block state and crashing the nested guest or KVM subsystem. No active exploitation has been identified (not in CISA KEV, EPSS 0.02% at 4th percentile), and the vulnerability is strictly limited to AMD hosts with nested virtualization configured using NRIPS-disabled L1 guests with injected soft interrupts.
Soft lockup in the Linux kernel's md/raid5 subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to trigger an infinite loop in the raid5d kernel thread, causing a kernel soft lockup and system-wide denial of service on hosts running RAID5 arrays. The fault lies in retry_aligned_read() using the wrong stripe release path when encountering overlapping stripes, permanently starving handle_stripe() of the work item needed to resolve the overlap. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) confirms negligible exploitation probability; however, multiple active stable kernel branches from 3.12 onward are affected and vendor-released patches are confirmed across five fix versions.
Deadlock in the Linux kernel md/raid10 subsystem causes a permanent denial-of-service when NOWAIT IO requests coincide with an array check (resync) operation. The md resync thread becomes permanently stuck because the nr_pending atomic counter underflows to a large negative value, preventing it from ever reaching the zero threshold needed to proceed. Systems running RAID-10 arrays where applications use O_NOWAIT IO (e.g., filesystem writeback paths via ext4) are affected. No public exploit code exists and EPSS is 0.02%, indicating low exploitation probability, but the bug is deterministically reproducible by any local user with IO access to the affected array.
Infinite loop denial-of-service in the Linux kernel ALSA ctxfi audio driver allows a local low-privileged user to hang the kernel by triggering S/PDIF passthrough playback at 32000 Hz on Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi hardware. The root cause is an uninitialized `pll_rate` field that causes a resource-calculation loop to never exit, consuming CPU indefinitely and degrading or halting system availability. No public exploit exists and the EPSS score of 0.02% (5th percentile) confirms negligible real-world exploitation pressure; the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.
USB device reference count leak in the Linux kernel ALSA CAIAQ driver allows a local attacker with access to USB hardware to trigger kernel memory exhaustion. The flaw exists because usb_get_dev() is called in create_card() but its matching usb_put_dev() is only installed as a destructor late in init_card(), leaving it unreachable on all intermediate failure paths. Syzbot has reproduced the issue using a malformed UAC3 USB audio device, and patches are available across all affected stable kernel branches. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is negligible at 0.02%.
Two kernel heap memory leaks in Linux kernel's weighted interleave NUMA memory policy subsystem allow a local low-privilege user to exhaust kernel memory and cause denial of service. The `weighted_interleave_auto_store()` function in `mm/mempolicy.c` fails to free `new_wi_state` on an early-return path and fails to free the old state object when overwritten via `rcu_assign_pointer()` when processing 'true' writes, because `old_wi_state` is only fetched inside the wrong conditional branch. The second leak is trivially automatable - any authorized sysfs writer can loop-write '1' indefinitely to drive the system into OOM - though no public exploit exists and EPSS sits at a negligible 0.02%.
Denial-of-service via kernel panic in the Linux kernel's greybus gb-beagleplay driver allows a local low-privileged user to crash the system by triggering an illegal sleep-in-atomic-context condition. The greybus HDLC TX path calls usleep_range() inside hdlc_append() while the tx_producer_lock spinlock is held, violating the fundamental Linux kernel rule that sleeping is forbidden in atomic context and triggering a 'BUG: scheduling while atomic' kernel oops. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) reflects the hardware-specific and local-access-only nature of this flaw. The input tag 'Information Disclosure' appears to be a misclassification - the actual impact is exclusively availability (kernel crash), consistent with the CVSS vector's A:H/C:N/I:N ratings.
Lock re-entrancy corruption in the Linux kernel's mm/page_alloc subsystem affects uniprocessor (UP/!CONFIG_SMP) builds, allowing freelist corruption that crashes the kernel. On UP kernels, spin_trylock() is a compile-time no-op that unconditionally succeeds; when alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() is invoked from NMI context, it re-enters rmqueue() and acquires the zone lock already held by the interrupted context, corrupting the page allocator's freelists. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at the 4th percentile (0.02%), consistent with the narrow scope: only non-default UP kernel builds on specific kernel versions are affected, making this a targeted stability concern for embedded or legacy uniprocessor deployments rather than a broad production threat.
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel vfio/cdx subsystem allows a local low-privileged user with access to a CDX VFIO device to crash the kernel by issuing an out-of-order ioctl sequence. Specifically, calling VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS with DATA_BOOL or DATA_NONE flags before ever initializing MSI interrupts via the EVENTFD path dereferences an unallocated cdx_irqs pointer, producing a kernel panic and denial-of-service. No public exploit code exists and EPSS is 0.02%, but vendor-released patches are confirmed available across all affected stable branches.
Nested SVM virtualization in the Linux kernel KVM subsystem can leave the host hypervisor (L1) running with corrupted page-table state when CR3 restoration fails during a nested #VMEXIT. The root function nested_svm_vmexit() returns an error code that most callers silently ignore, meaning the host continues executing against corrupt address-space mappings rather than triggering the shutdown behavior mandated by the AMD Architecture Programmer's Manual. The fix injects a triple fault - mirroring real hardware behavior - and continues cleanup to avoid leaving vCPU state partially torn down. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.02%, but the availability impact is high for any host running nested AMD virtualization.
Memory leak in the Linux kernel's EDAC/versalnet driver (mc_probe()) results in unreleased device_node references, enabling local low-privileged users to cause kernel memory exhaustion and availability degradation on AMD/Xilinx Versal SoC systems. The root cause is a missing of_node_put() call on all exit paths of mc_probe(), with the fix applied across stable branches including 6.18.27 and 7.0.4. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists, and EPSS sits at 0.02% (4th percentile), reflecting minimal active exploitation risk.