Not yet scoredPublished Aug 15, 2026

CVE-2026-72376afs: Fix misplaced inc of net->cells_outstanding

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 9:50 AM ET)

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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.

CVSS: Not yet scored
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Received
Record last updated: Aug 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee builds before 6e310f818abcef947a06584158b9e6c6cd0c98d3; 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee builds before 5ea289ca751c47125f6a4138c93ba10c05cd28f0; from 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee before 654a546c34f3921dd03f9ea74e60139ebffd9e20; from 88c853c3f5c0a07c5db61b494ee25152535cfeee before c9c3b615a462a4023bd148f02c564e175ed10502; e44b8d2aa1543f5c554fda7839574abe8a5ef5ba; f339eda9b90e49e82043c145ac628d679d913638; from 5.8.17 before 5.9; from 5.9.2 before 5.10	CNA record

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e310f818abcef947a06584158b9e6c6cd0c98d3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ea289ca751c47125f6a4138c93ba10c05cd28f0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654a546c34f3921dd03f9ea74e60139ebffd9e20
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9c3b615a462a4023bd148f02c564e175ed10502

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