CVE-2026-72372 (GCVE-0-2026-72372)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:43
VLAI
Title
afs: Fix lack of locking around modifications of net->cells_dyn_ino
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix lack of locking around modifications of net->cells_dyn_ino Fix the lack of locking around modifications of net->cells_dyn_ino by taking net->cells_lock exclusively. This also requires to cell to be removed from net->cells_dyn_ino in afs_destroy_cell_work() rather than in afs_cell_destroy() as the latter runs in RCU cleanup context and sleeping locks cannot be taken there.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 537b0105952578531f748c7fb3ce36ae9a514784 , < 4d8a2fe8847859f4fa4e9a2fa1221c9c1158e66b (git)
Affected: 1d0b929fc070b4115403a0a6206a0c6a62dd61f5 , < 2ffb70a8a01988046bb207b7d0af9358a8337378 (git)
Affected: 1d0b929fc070b4115403a0a6206a0c6a62dd61f5 , < e94f92fd56c553a8bf9421c3289e1b85c7c08857 (git)
Affected: 1d0b929fc070b4115403a0a6206a0c6a62dd61f5 , < 55e841836c6f4646490f7b0347192b7a92d431ba (git)
Affected: 6.12.97 , < 6.12.101 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 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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