A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.87/6.18.29/7.0.6 . It has been rated as critical . Impacted is the function sendmsg of the component af_unix . Performing a manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-52928 . The attack can only be performed from the local network. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.