Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72489

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - staging: nvec: fix use-after-free in nvecrxcompleted In nvecrxcompleted, when an incomplete RX transfer is detected, nvecmsgfree is called to return the message...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72489

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: nvec: fix use-after-free in nvecrxcompleted In nvecrxcompleted, when an incomplete RX transfer is detected, nvecmsgfree is called to return the message back to the pool by clearing its 'used' atomic flag. Immediately aft...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72489

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: nvec: fix use-after-free in nvecrxcompleted In nvecrxcompleted, when an incomplete RX transfer is detected, nvecmsgfree is called to return the message back to the pool by clearing its 'used' atomic flag. Immediately aft...

CVE-2026-72489

The CVE-2026-72489 issue affects the Linux kernel staging/nvec code. In nvec_rx_completed(), an incomplete RX transfer could trigger nvec_msg_free() to clear a pool slot, after which the code reads nvec->rx->data[0]. Because the slot may be reallocated concurrently, this leads to a use-afte...