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    "id": "CVE-2026-68440",
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    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
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      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "net: txgbe: fix heap overflow when reading module EEPROM",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: txgbe: fix heap overflow when reading module EEPROM\n\ntxgbe_read_eeprom_hostif() always copies round_up(length, 4) bytes\ninto the caller buffer, which ethtool allocates with exactly 'length'\nbytes. A non-4-aligned length therefore causes an out-of-bounds write.\nCopy only the remaining bytes on the final dword instead.",
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