CVE-2026-72376 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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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Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

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References

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

History

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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.
Title		afs: Fix misplaced inc of net->cells_outstanding
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ea289ca751c47125f6a4138c93ba10c05cd28f0 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654a546c34f3921dd03f9ea74e60139ebffd9e20 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e310f818abcef947a06584158b9e6c6cd0c98d3 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9c3b615a462a4023bd148f02c564e175ed10502

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2026-08-15T05:56:10.401Z

Updated: 2026-08-15T05:56:10.401Z

Reserved: 2026-08-09T03:40:39.922Z

Link: CVE-2026-72376

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-15T06:22:11.090

Modified: 2026-08-15T06:22:11.090

Link: CVE-2026-72376

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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