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CVE record · CVE-2026-68179

misc: nsm: only unlock nsm_dev on post-lock error paths

CVSS 8.4 HighEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 10 Aug 2026, 11:59 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 b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749 to before 4aa3f7d48e91eb74a363c1b4d7dbdd28f5b341fb git
  • affected b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749 to before 8f068342096b027181b168d91fef7ac7a2c64b25 git
  • affected b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749 to before f318f5a872cb9096536e759b23ae5c9873bb80ed git
  • affected b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749 to before ce1fed11d18e163baf7f875152a33bf80f625c1a git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.8
  • unaffected before 6.8 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-2026-68179
CNA
Linux
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-675
Tags
Published
10 Aug 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.4 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 5 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

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.