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CVE-2026-72363 (GCVE-0-2026-72363)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:13
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Title
netfs: Fix folio state after ENOMEM whilst under writeback iteration
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix folio state after ENOMEM whilst under writeback iteration Fix the state of the current folio when ENOMEM occurs during writeback iteration. The folio needs to be redirtied and unlocked before the terminal writeback_iter() is invoked.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 06fa229ceb36898e68022b5654c017d2c6582d7d , < a9b89752c2726e88ea67994fb97a0316b24d30b7 (git)
Affected: 06fa229ceb36898e68022b5654c017d2c6582d7d , < 1a4421c7a5611db554328f721a4f7642440b44bd (git)
Affected: 06fa229ceb36898e68022b5654c017d2c6582d7d , < b6a713fd34b9498ee2164d5d3e8460732a392efc (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (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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