{"id":"CVE-2026-71226","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-71226","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:41:50.487Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2026-08-05T13:24:47.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-22T21:17:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["redhat/hardened images","redhat/openshift container platform","smuellerdd/libkcapi","redhat/enterprise linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00135,"percentile":0.02971,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56985","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67265","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67266","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67267","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69285","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:87712","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71226","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462114","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71226","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}