CVE-2026-71226

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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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.3 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
[email protected]
Published
2026-08-05 13:24:47.223000
Last modified
2026-10-30 06:16:49.743000
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