CVE-2026-74359

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: configfslookup: don't leave -sdentry dangling on failure Normally -sdentry is cleared when dentry it's pointing to becomes negative on eviction, realistically. However, that only happens if dentry gets to be positive in the first...

CVE-2026-74359 configfs_lookup(): don't leave ->s_dentry dangling on failure

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: configfslookup: don't leave -sdentry dangling on failure Normally -sdentry is cleared when dentry it's pointing to becomes negative on eviction, realistically. However, that only happens if dentry gets to be positive in the first...

EUVD-2026-59506

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: configfslookup: don't leave -sdentry dangling on failure Normally -sdentry is cleared when dentry it's pointing to becomes negative on eviction, realistically. However, that only happens if dentry gets to be positive in the first...

CVE-2026-74359 configfs_lookup(): don't leave ->s_dentry dangling on failure

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: configfslookup: don't leave -sdentry dangling on failure Normally -sdentry is cleared when dentry it's pointing to becomes negative on eviction, realistically. However, that only happens if dentry gets to be positive in the first...

CVE-2026-74359

In CVE-2026-74359, the Linux kernel fixes a use-after-free in configfs_lookup where a dangling ->s_dentry can be observed after inode allocation failure. The root cause was that, on certain failure paths, the dentry’s link to a configfs_dirent wasn’t cleared, leaving a pointer in ->s_dentry...