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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-68159 (CRITICAL 9.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE __decode_pg_temp() decodes an user-controlled length but only rejects values large enough to overflow the allocation; it does not bound it t

[NVD] CVE-2026-68159 (CRITICAL 9.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE __decode_pg_temp() decodes an user-controlled length but only rejects values large enough to overflow the allocation; it does not bound it t

mednvdPublished 2026-08-10

CVE-2026-68159 CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL Published: 2026-08-10T13:20:02.187

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE

__decode_pg_temp() decodes an user-controlled length but only rejects values large enough to overflow the allocation; it does not bound it to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE. The helper backs both pg_temp

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2026-68159cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68159