THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-80724 (HIGH 8.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable
vmclock_miscdev_mmap() rejects writable mappings of the shared vmclock
ABI page with -EROFS, but leaves VM_MAYWRITE set. Userspace can map the
pa
[NVD] CVE-2026-80724 (HIGH 8.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable vmclock_miscdev_mmap() rejects writable mappings of the shared vmclock ABI page with -EROFS, but leaves VM_MAYWRITE set. Userspace can map the pa
CVE-2026-80724 CVSS: 8.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-28T08:16:58.210
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable
vmclock_miscdev_mmap() rejects writable mappings of the shared vmclock ABI page with -EROFS, but leaves VM_MAYWRITE set. Userspace can map the page read-only and then upgrade it to writable with mpro
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-80724cve
- CVE-2026-68445cve
- CVE-2024-53071cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80724