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CVE-2026-68440

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 12, 2026Sources checked Oct 8, 2026
7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-68440 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview

What is CVE-2026-68440?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: txgbe: fix heap overflow when reading module EEPROM

txgbe_read_eeprom_hostif() always copies round_up(length, 4) bytes into the caller buffer, which ethtool allocates with exactly 'length' bytes. A non-4-aligned length therefore causes an out-of-bounds write.

Copy only the remaining bytes on the final dword instead.

Source: NVD