Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
The Linux kernel's ocfs2 heartbeat code (o2hb) has a use-after-free in its negotiate and timeout handling. Affected kernels run from commit 34069b886f95356d68bf8315fa648c4ab3193cdd until the fixing commits listed for each branch. A peer on the cluster can reach the vulnerable path, and the source reports kernel memory corruption. Upgrade to 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.57, or a later release in those series.
Not analysed yet
We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.
Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | High | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CNA (Linux) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0059, the 48th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
Sources
References from the CNA
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed3c9aebd6bb5aa6ccc2a9177fab7a87ae895715
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b672d4de13247369c8dc394ba83f2a896d9cc25c
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f218d70f27bb326f5e9b2f33503e253851b3bafa
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d44822ba34d6035690f725f9de602744a6e1946
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5a2907bdeced0949bcddc84b95ba7d4cb93841b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/011291b70ba4832e136b7b581825b2bc0f525bf6