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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80521" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-26T14:37:02.589Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:56:06.656Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80521" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80521.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80521" title: "af_unix: Unlink scc_entry in unix_del_edge()." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Unlink scc_entry in unix_del_edge().\n\nKyle Zeng reported that GC could free a dead SCC partially.\n\nThe scenario is as follows:\n\n 1) Create two SCCs:\n\n X -. A \u003c-\u003e B\n ^--'\n\n 2) Run the following concurrently:\n\n 2-1) send() sk-B to sk-B from sk-X\n 2-2) close() both A and B\n\nAt 2-1), there is a small window where unix_add_edges()\npublishes a new edge (B \u003c-\u003e B) to GC but its skb is not queued\nby skb_queue_tail().\n\nIf 2-2) completes before skb_queue_tail() and GC is triggered,\nit judges A \u003c-\u003e B as dead, but B is not freed because GC cannot\ncollect the not-yet-queued skb holding the B \u003c-\u003e B edge.\n\n X -. A \u003c-\u003e B -. This edge is visible\n ^--' ^..' but skb is not\n\nThis itself is not a problem since the next GC run will judge\nB as dead as well and free it finally.\n\n X -. A \u003c.\u003e B -.\n ^--' ^--'\n\nHowever, X's SCC forces the next GC to call unix_walk_scc_fast(),\nand it iterates over A through B's scc_entry.\n\nLet's unlink scc_entry before freeing the vertex in unix_del_edge()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5dfd283f4651d04dbb70ceb9ae5c4a30eda3c52a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b6c2842692d08e7acaf32d1eb47f95def35f3fe"},{"version":"de7921631ff323369aa63a4324695ab54ea4047e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fda5c51b8e43a8440f76e65c89d9f95ddb2ef33"},{"version":"4090fa373f0e763c43610853d2774b5979915959","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1293fd69a50d188a5788b08ba3741a3e86be1608"},{"version":"4090fa373f0e763c43610853d2774b5979915959","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fe198b077864feafd4aa4b33b1a5ce26f50195a2"},{"version":"4090fa373f0e763c43610853d2774b5979915959","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3702470ced94fad74d71e2232f022d2eb752a6d"},{"version":"4090fa373f0e763c43610853d2774b5979915959","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"594d905195024b228c962627ae5ae7c17bd582a4"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.189"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.158"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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