ShellCodeX vulnerability brief
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CVE-2026-68440
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: txgbe: fix heap overflow when reading module EEPROM txgbe_read_eeprom_hostif() always copies round_up(length, 4) bytes into the caller buffer, which ethtool allocates with exactly 'length' bytes. A non-4-aligned length therefore causes an out-of-bounds write. Copy only the remaining bytes on the final dword instead.
Published 12 Aug 2026, 00:17 UTC
Last modified 12 Aug 2026, 00:17 UTC
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