Riskcovery

CVE-2026-97584

afs: Fix incorrect free in candidate cleanup in afs_lookup_server()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 24, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

afs: Fix incorrect free in candidate cleanup in afs_lookup_server()

Fix afs_lookup_server() to not free an existing server's endpoint state when cleaning up a candidate server. The candidate record doesn't have an endpoint state yet at this point, so the free for that can just be removed.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d6aa05cd995830f6dcee7b139335edb266de38a6 to before 981d72663dee2fa6efaf202293e68d2b10a0d1d4Affected
  • 4882ba78574e2d8c579658f65f6784b0d139d173 to before e5bc0fa9959dc8f7eb1afab7c039594a16a1a65cAffected
  • 4882ba78574e2d8c579658f65f6784b0d139d173 to before 349e713039a1fd6659c27e7a66238bfa49ce37e9Affected
  • 4882ba78574e2d8c579658f65f6784b0d139d173 to before 044d596094af4b769fb8e1173dff0d08bd68db6cAffected
  • 6.12.101 to before 6.12.111Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.53 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.7 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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