CVE-2026-72219 (GCVE-0-2026-72219)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:10
VLAI
Title
lockd: Plug nlm_file leak when nlm_do_fopen() fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lockd: Plug nlm_file leak when nlm_do_fopen() fails A client can repeatedly drive nlm_do_fopen() failures by presenting file handles that the underlying export rejects. After kzalloc_obj() succeeds in nlm_lookup_file(), the freshly allocated nlm_file is not yet inserted into nlm_files[]. The nlm_do_fopen() failure path jumps to out_unlock, which releases nlm_file_mutex and returns without freeing the allocation, so each failure leaks one nlm_file. Route the failure through out_free so kfree() runs before the function returns.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e580323ac0b51ad10ec2e181d1f777479b7983e7 , < bca74fff138429f3d5802865f38fc883d53a4f1a (git)
Affected: 7f024fcd5c97dc70bb9121c80407cf3cf9be7159 , < d7c677feb3aa1f42b1026d75a8ea61338b51e4fb (git)
Affected: 7f024fcd5c97dc70bb9121c80407cf3cf9be7159 , < 39f59bf67231ed2eb0cdf6337194360e964b609a (git)
Affected: 7f024fcd5c97dc70bb9121c80407cf3cf9be7159 , < ddfbd816273b4e9c9b836f5b8773664c6f40f807 (git)
Affected: 7f024fcd5c97dc70bb9121c80407cf3cf9be7159 , < 1403f1221a35a6caf959bb7bf005741f17263c66 (git)
Affected: 7f024fcd5c97dc70bb9121c80407cf3cf9be7159 , < 1161c4b5bd0048c8148e919f818a33cff3623ef0 (git)
Affected: 7f024fcd5c97dc70bb9121c80407cf3cf9be7159 , < 3f2dc01b9cb516d4727a3b9263ee58c71ca00ba9 (git)
Affected: 7f024fcd5c97dc70bb9121c80407cf3cf9be7159 , < f16a1513452edb532fec81e591c64c320866719c (git)
Affected: 5.10.220 , < 5.10.261 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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