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CVE-2026-72356 (GCVE-0-2026-72356)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:55 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:43
VLAI
Title
cifs: Fix missing credit release on failure in cifs_issue_read()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix missing credit release on failure in cifs_issue_read() Fix missing release of credits in the failure path in cifs_issue_read() lest retrying the subreq just overwrites the credits value.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 69c3c023af25edb5433a2db824d3e7cc328f0183 , < b9ee1f0347bf56d019ca28ddff090234bb45b05c (git)
Affected: 69c3c023af25edb5433a2db824d3e7cc328f0183 , < 86652704a7fd41a5a8459027e08640bbd1952826 (git)
Affected: 69c3c023af25edb5433a2db824d3e7cc328f0183 , < 3a303f985c6bec8787c2ad4a16b39c14c5bcd765 (git)
Affected: 69c3c023af25edb5433a2db824d3e7cc328f0183 , < c16b8c4cfb4fe2244cc33e469a93c1ab8684146b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (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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