CVE-2026-71226

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Published: August 5, 2026 (32 days ago)
Last Modified: August 5, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

Memory Corruption via Uncanceled AIO Requests on Error: libkcapi's one-shot AIO path can return an error before all submitted IOCBs are drained, allowing later kernel writes into caller-owned output buffers.

CWE

CWE-416

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Hardened ImagesRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov