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Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patched
Corvus AI has identified a critical memory corruption flaw in Linux's vhost subsystem, identified as CVE-2026-74580 with a CVSS score of 8.8. This vulnerability, affecting kernel versions 4.11 through 7.2, permits local privilege escalation on the host and escape from virtual machines through a compromised IOTLB metadata cache. Major Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux, Azure Linux, and Oracle Linux, have issued alerts and provided fixes.
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