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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-71227 (MEDIUM 5.1) — A flaw was found in libkcapi. A local attacker can influence an application that uses the Asynchronous Input/Output (AIO) interface. By reusing an AIO-enabled handle after a prior completion error, the _kcapi_aio_read_all() function can enter a non-terminating wait loop. This can

[NVD] CVE-2026-71227 (MEDIUM 5.1) — A flaw was found in libkcapi. A local attacker can influence an application that uses the Asynchronous Input/Output (AIO) interface. By reusing an AIO-enabled handle after a prior completion error, the _kcapi_aio_read_all() function can enter a non-terminating wait loop. This can

mednvdPublished 2026-08-05

CVE-2026-71227 CVSS: 5.1 MEDIUM Published: 2026-08-05T13:24:47.353

A flaw was found in libkcapi. A local attacker can influence an application that uses the Asynchronous Input/Output (AIO) interface. By reusing an AIO-enabled handle after a prior completion error, the _kcapi_aio_read_all() function can enter a non-terminating wait loop. This can lead to a persistent denial of service, making the

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CVE-2026-71227cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71227