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CVE record · CVE-2026-68096

audit: fix recursive locking deadlock in audit_dupe_exe()

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0053 · 45th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 10 Aug 2026, 11:58 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc to before 6114c3f21eb2ae175401736da744b684705e7ed9 git
  • affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc to before f6fda0ac6661c23b8356dfb1cc423960cc6f0593 git
  • affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc to before 3bbb4931f7cd84cecf29ec222c0732bf9ad4da9f git
  • affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc to before 36eb77f14b4e6f2dc1008c1fabe31236397be27a git
  • affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc to before 7d1f66c69898ffb1a718926c32a777ecc471caca git
  • affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc to before 40879c39d6740f3dddfb52b5d6ba7fb8cceb84d8 git
  • affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc to before 3b601938314c24fcd1afb6659cad92fe96c9c2f8 git
  • affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc to before 81905b5acbe77284734438df3fbec1158e6429a3 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.3
  • unaffected before 4.3 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.266 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.217 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.184 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.148 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.101 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.42 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.1.6 to 7.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-68096
CNA
Linux
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-835
Tags
Published
10 Aug 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0053, the 45th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 10 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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