CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-80956

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 11, 2026Sources checked Nov 3, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-80956. 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-2026-80956?

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

dm-pcache: only hand out initialized cache segments

get_cache_segment() scans the segment map up to cache->n_segs, the physical device segment count, but cache_segs_init() only initializes the first cache_info->n_segs segments.

A crafted image with cache_info->n_segs smaller than the device count leaves the remaining pcache_cache_segment structs zeroed (segment.data == NULL), and the allocator can hand one to cache_kset_close(), which writes through the returned segment's data pointer with no NULL check.

Bound the allocator's search to cache_info->n_segs so only initialized segments are ever returned. A conforming cache sets n_segs equal to the device segment count, so this rejects nothing legitimate.

Source: NVD