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x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection An attacker injecting interrupts while the Safe-RET mitigation executes on machines affected by SRSO can neutralize the safe return sequence, potentially leading to data leakage through speculative execution. Fixup register state as if the Safe-RET sequence executed successfully by "emulating" it, in a manner of speaking, and avoid executing a RET instruction after returning from the interrupt.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.10.264, 5.15.215, 6.1.182, 6.12.102, 6.18.43, 6.6.150, 7.1.7
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-68480
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 13:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 6 Aug 2026, 17:36 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection An attacker injecting interrupts while the Safe-RET mitigation executes on machines affected by SRSO can neutralize the safe return sequence, potentially leading to data leakage through speculative execution. Fixup register state as if the Safe-RET sequence executed successfully by "emulating" it, in a manner of speaking, and avoid executing a RET instruction after returning from the interrupt.
osv:CVE-2026-68480
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.10.264, 5.15.215, 6.1.182, 6.6.150, 6.12.102, 6.18.43, 7.1.7
Complete source record
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