CVE-2026-72376

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9c3b615a462a4023bd148f02c564e175ed10502

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e310f818abcef947a06584158b9e6c6cd0c98d3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654a546c34f3921dd03f9ea74e60139ebffd9e20

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ea289ca751c47125f6a4138c93ba10c05cd28f0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00209