CVE-2026-72376 (GCVE-0-2026-72376)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:56
Modified
2026-08-17 05:13
Severity ?
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee
Version: 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee
Version: 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee
Version: 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee
Version: e44b8d2aa1543f5c554fda7839574abe8a5ef5ba
Version: f339eda9b90e49e82043c145ac628d679d913638
Version: 5.8.17   ≤
Version: 5.9.2   ≤
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