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Tracker / CVE-2026-53268

CVE-2026-53268

High 8.2

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack_irc: fix possible out-of-bounds read When parsing fails after we've matched the command string we should bail out instead of trying to match a different command. This helper should be deprecated, given prevalence of TLS I doubt it has any relevance in 2026.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.20 → 5.10.259
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.210
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.176
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.36
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.13
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.143
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.94

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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