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CVE-2026-64264

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-07-25
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 6.18.39 / 7.1.4 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click 4 weeks old

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse-uring: fix EFAULT clobber in fuse_uring_commit copy_from_user() returns the number of bytes not copied as an unsigned residual on failure (1..sizeof(struct fuse_out_header)). fuse_uring_commit stores that residual in ssize_t err, sets req->out.h.error to -EFAULT, then jumps to out: with err still holding the positive residual. err = copy_from_user(&req->out.h, &ent->headers->in_out, sizeof(req->out.h)); if (err) { req->out.h.error = -EFAULT; goto out; /* err is the positive residual */ } ... out: fuse_uring_req_end(ent, req, err); fuse_uring_req_end() then runs if (error) req->out.h.error = error; which overwrites the just-assigned -EFAULT with the positive residual. FUSE callers such as fuse_simple_request() test err < 0 to detect failure, so the positive value is interpreted as success and the caller proceeds with an uninitialised or partial req->out.args. Fix by assigning err = -EFAULT in the failure branch before jumping to out, so fuse_uring_req_end() receives a negative errno and sets req->out.h.error to -EFAULT.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 6.14, < 6.18.39>= 6.19, < 7.1.4

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 6.18.39 / 7.1.4 or later
Fixed in 6.18.397.1.4
Recommended fix High confidence

Upgrade to Linux kernel >= 6.18.39 or >= 7.1.4 (or the equivalent stable release from your distribution vendor)

  1. Identify the current running kernel version using `uname -r`
  2. Check if the version falls within the affected range: >= 6.14, < 6.18.39 or >= 6.19, < 7.1.4
  3. Contact your Linux distribution vendor for a kernel update package specific to your distribution
  4. Apply the vendor kernel update and reboot to the new kernel version
  5. Verify the running kernel is now >= 6.18.39 or >= 7.1.4 using `uname -r`
Caveat Kernel upgrades may require system reboot and could have compatibility implications with out-of-tree kernel modules or specific hardware drivers

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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