CVE-2026-64068 (GCVE-0-2026-64068)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 15:39 – Updated: 2026-09-07 15:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
netfs: Fix missing locking around retry adding new subreqs
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs: Fix missing locking around retry adding new subreqs
Fix netfs_retry_read_subrequests() and netfs_retry_write_stream() to take
the appropriate lock when adding extra subrequests into
stream->subrequests.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 , < d5c9d19b0ff2f7153532ac238a5e96fed2df315c
(git)
Affected: 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 , < 393f3f0d7353a94b1e0bc4ca89c683fe983e5fd2 (git) Affected: 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 , < cce18c263e9623872327ba3c956012f73c1179cc (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.11 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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