{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68420 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-68420 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 10 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-68420 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-68420 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 10 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68420 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68420/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68420/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-68420","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68420/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-68420","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-68420","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68420","GHSA-hf2r-xm53-x39m","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68420"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A stack-out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel's xfrm subsystem allows local attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted outbound policies.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: reject optional IPTFS templates in outbound policies\n\nsyzbot reported a stack-out-of-bounds read in xfrm_state_find()\nwhich flows from xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one().\n\nCommit 3d776e31c841 (\"xfrm: Reject optional tunnel/BEET mode\ntemplates in outbound policies\") disallowed optional tunnel and\nBEET in outbound policies to prevent this. Later when IPTFS\nadded, it was not covered by that fix and can still trigger\nthe out-of-bounds read;\n\nExtend the check to disallow optional IPTFS in outbound policies\nas well. IPTFS should be identical to tunnel mode.\nIN and FWD policies are not affected: xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one()\nis only reachable via the outbound path.\n\nReproducer, before:\n\nip link add dummy0 type dummy\nip link set dummy0 up\nip addr add 10.1.1.1/24 dev dummy0\nip xfrm policy add src 10.1.1.1/32 dst 10.1.1.2/32 dir out tmpl\n  src fc00::dead:1 dst fc00::dead:2 proto esp reqid 1 mode iptfs\n  level use tmpl src fc00::dead:1 dst fc00::dead:2 proto esp reqid\n  2 mode transport\nping -W 1 -c 1 10.1.1.2\nPING 10.1.1.2 (10.1.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data.\n\n[   64.168420] ==================================================================\n[   64.169977] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __xfrm6_addr_hash+0x11e/0x170\n[   64.169977] Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800e1ffd20 by task ping/2844\n\n[   64.169977] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 2844 Comm: ping Not tainted 7.1.0-rc7-00180-geb23b588430a #98 PREEMPT(full)\n[   64.169977] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[   64.169977] Call Trace:\n[   64.169977]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[   64.169977]  dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x70\n[   64.169977]  ? __xfrm6_addr_hash+0x11e/0x170\n[   64.169977]  print_report+0x152/0x4b0\n[   64.169977]  ? ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x6d/0xa0\n[   64.169977]  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n[   64.169977]  ? rcu_read_unlock_sched+0xa/0x20\n[   64.169977]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0x21b/0x230\n[   64.169977]  ? __xfrm6_addr_hash+0x11e/0x170\n[   64.169977]  kasan_report+0xa8/0xd0\n[   64.169977]  ? __xfrm6_addr_hash+0x11e/0x170\n[   64.169977]  __xfrm6_addr_hash+0x11e/0x170\n[   64.169977]  __xfrm_dst_hash+0x24/0xc0\n[   64.169977]  xfrm_state_find+0xa2d/0x2f90\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_xfrm_state_find+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_ftrace_graph_ret_addr+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_ftrace_graph_ret_addr+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one+0x210/0x570\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? kernel_text_address+0x5b/0x80\n[   64.169977]  ? __kernel_text_address+0xe/0x30\n[   64.169977]  ? unwind_get_return_address+0x5e/0x90\n[   64.169977]  ? arch_stack_walk+0x8c/0xe0\n[   64.169977]  xfrm_tmpl_resolve+0x130/0x200\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_xfrm_tmpl_resolve+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_xfrm_policy_inexact_lookup_rcu+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? __refcount_add_not_zero.constprop.0+0xb2/0x110\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx___refcount_add_not_zero.constprop.0+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  xfrm_resolve_and_create_bundle+0xd5/0x310\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_xfrm_resolve_and_create_bundle+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  xfrm_lookup_with_ifid+0x3d8/0xb80\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_xfrm_lookup_with_ifid+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? ip_route_output_key_hash+0xc6/0x110\n[   64.169977]  ? kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30\n[   64.169977]  xfrm_lookup_route+0x18/0xe0\n[   64.169977]  ip4_datagram_release_cb+0x4c9/0x530\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_ip4_datagram_release_cb+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x71/0xc0\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  release_sock+0xb0/0x170\n[   64.169977]  udp_connect+0x43/0x50\n[   64.169977]  __sys_connect+0xa6/0x100\n[   64.169977]  ? alloc_fd+0x2e9/0x300\n[   64.169977]  ? __pfx___sys_connect+0x10/0x10\n[   64.169977]  ? preempt_latency\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"xfrm: reject optional IPTFS templates in outbound policies","id":"CVE-2026-68420","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"sched_ext: Don't warn on core-sched forced idle in put_prev_task_scx()","id":"CVE-2026-68421"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"RDMA/irdma: Prevent rereg_mr for non-mem regions","id":"CVE-2026-68419"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-10","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A stack-out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel's xfrm subsystem allows local attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted outbound policies.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68420/"}