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CGA-cf68-pvgr-988c

Package

linux-vmware-6.12

Component

linux-kernel

Latest update

Not affected

Aliases

  • CVE-2026-31609
  • GHSA-rc8c-94m4-frfh

Severity

9.8

Critical

CVSS V3

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References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31609
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rc8c-94m4-frfh

Updates

Status

Not affected

Justification

Vulnerable code not present

Impact

CVE-2026-31609 affects the SMB client RDMA transport (fs/smb/client/smbdirect.c), which is only built when CONFIG_CIFS_SMB_DIRECT is enabled. That option is not enabled in any Chainguard kernel configuration. Additionally, per kernel.org CNA data the vulnerable change was introduced in 7.0 and was never backported to the 6.12.y branch.

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