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CVE-2026-72376 (GCVE-0-2026-72376)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:13
VLAI
Title
afs: Fix misplaced inc of net->cells_outstanding
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix misplaced inc of net->cells_outstanding Fix net->cells_outstanding being incremented before the check for failure of idr_alloc_cyclic(), leaving the count incremented on error.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee , < 6e310f818abcef947a06584158b9e6c6cd0c98d3 (git)
Affected: 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee , < 5ea289ca751c47125f6a4138c93ba10c05cd28f0 (git)
Affected: 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee , < 654a546c34f3921dd03f9ea74e60139ebffd9e20 (git)
Affected: 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee , < c9c3b615a462a4023bd148f02c564e175ed10502 (git)
Affected: e44b8d2aa1543f5c554fda7839574abe8a5ef5ba (git)
Affected: f339eda9b90e49e82043c145ac628d679d913638 (git)
Affected: 5.8.17 , < 5.9 (semver)
Affected: 5.9.2 , < 5.10 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (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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