CVE-2026-80885: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix uncancelled rxrpc OOB message handler Fix AFS to cancel its OOB message processing (typically to respond to security challenges). Also move OOB message processing to afs_wq so that it's also waited for and make the OOB handler just return if the net namespace is no longer live.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 6.16, before 6.18.40 (fixed in 6.18.40); from 6.19, before 7.1.5 (fixed in 7.1.5)

Published 2026-09-04. Last modified 2026-09-04.