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CVE-2026-68161: Linux 5.11
CVE-2026-68161 affects linux. CVSS 3.1 base score 9.8 (CRITICAL, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00671 (percentile 0.50311), scored 03-Oct-2026. Fixed version: 6.12.101-1. Fixed version: 7.1.6-1. Fixed version: 6.12.101-1~deb12u1.
Affected technology
Linux · 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before c29affd44e6769e3073235d4b471d9b501fa8166, 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before c6eb2d615210b80339548ab07c0230edaab9a6c7, 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before 8ff78591d309c50a4fdab683b68dd8d512a270dd, 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before 3bf0e349cbb4f975f35eb22753acc346b89c66a0, 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before 37ff9794be48d0caa37687e04d09675f9c849121, 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to before ffb2bd7ade36ec4da32c46a6eddbf4515316d08c
Linux
Linux · 5.11
Linux
Component: Not specified by the source
File: net/sctp/protocol.c
Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Network (remote) · No privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
Source advisory’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 9.8/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.
- Product
- linux
- CCR priority
- 39.4 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · Source advisory
- EPSS
- 0.00664 · percentile 0.50647 · 2026-10-15
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-16 09:43:43.583708+00:00 UTC
- GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-04 06:01:24.332572+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-16 16:55:38.548135+00:00 UTC
- OSV.dev · Source record · observed 2026-10-04 13:35:46.972631+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-68161.html