CVE-2026-68168 (GCVE-0-2026-68168)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 11:59 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:00
VLAI
Title
afs: Fix afs_edit_dir_remove() to get, not find, block 0
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix afs_edit_dir_remove() to get, not find, block 0 Fix afs_edit_dir_remove() to use afs_dir_get_block() to get block 0 rather than afs_dir_find_block() as the latter caches the found block in the afs_dir_iter and may[*] switch out the page it's on if another afs_dir_find_block() is done. This parallels what afs_edit_dir_add() does. [*] There's more than one block per page.
Severity
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a5b5beebcf96d5e8a2fc79856c2ac1e93f82478e , < f2b293359924117736218701ebd8b40618d73e6f (git)
Affected: a5b5beebcf96d5e8a2fc79856c2ac1e93f82478e , < bfdfc7782ada6f3a4df7182889b66039f8e4131c (git)
Affected: a5b5beebcf96d5e8a2fc79856c2ac1e93f82478e , < 62d9853aa4ce6e9797b6949804891be14b219752 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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