# CVE-2026-46300: A Linux flaw can let attackers run commands as root

Status: Being used now (CISA KEV, added 2026-10-28)
Who: Anyone running Linux servers. Reported as chained with the PHP flaws to plant web shells.
Do this: Install your Linux distribution's kernel update and reboot. Also patch PHP.

## Agent prompt (read-only)
Read-only check, change nothing, send nothing anywhere.
Is Linux Kernel (CVE-2026-46300) installed or running on this machine or in this project?
1. Find every copy and its version (apps, packages, containers, lockfiles).
2. Compare each version against the vendor's fixed version for CVE-2026-46300. Quote the vendor page you used.
3. Report a table: where, version, fixed version, status (exposed / fixed / not installed / unsure).
4. List the exact update steps, but do not run them.

## Official description
Linux Kernel contains a missing initialization of a variable vulnerability that could allow for unintended modification of page-cache-backed data via failure to preserve the shared-fragment marker during socket buffer coalescing, causing ESP input processing to decrypt shared fragments in place. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 to implant PHP webshells and run commands as root.

## Sources
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3599e6b3cc1ada96883d496a50a210d3afbb6987
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f2b16022a2e10ca7bccfb98db5ed2ec0f72641c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d3e5fd19fe1063bf607219e8562fbd567b8e8d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78bf6b6bb19541d19fbda6242e7cfe2c682763c0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/760e1addc27ba1a7beb4a0a7e8b3e9ec49e7a34e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bd9e113d50034db99d7ef69fd8e5242d15e414a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3884358a9286b17f389a72b1426fc4547c23c111
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f84eca5817390257cef78013d0112481c503b4a3
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46300
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46300

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