CVE-2026-80958dm-pcache: clamp the tail kset read to the segment data region
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.16%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 94% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-pcache: clamp the tail kset read to the segment data region The tail-kset read in cache_replay(), the writeback worker and the GC worker bounds its length by PCACHE_SEG_SIZE - seg_off, the raw segment size rather than the data region. A tail near the segment end reads past the segment data into the following control area. Clamp the read to cache_seg_remain(), the data region.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
- 38 days later
· 38 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinuxCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Received | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.16% · top 94% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
- affected 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 – < 2cd9776fe3f2d88ec22c36d3c8ba09fbf9d5500c
- affected 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 – < 1ab55354368d071ebaee4d8c82313955eab65a04
- affected 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 – < becf07e2b0053027495ecd671b1f82fb2e615f68
- affected 6.18
- unaffected < 6.18
- unaffected 6.18.50 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.2.4 – ≤ 7.2.*
- unaffected 7.3 – ≤ *
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-76281 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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