Summary
Linux Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability which allows concurrent writes to the same AF_ALG socket causing data to be unpredictably interleaved and creating inconsistencies in the socket's internal state.
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Kernel
- Added to KEV
- Sep 18, 2026
- Remediation due
- Sep 21, 2026 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- EPSS
- 1.6% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References