CVE-2026-72368

A flaw was found in the cachefiles component of the Linux kernel. When a directory creation operation fails due to memory exhaustion, a double unlock of the parent directory lock occurs. This issue corrupts the read-write semaphore rwsem state, which can lead to system instability or a kernel...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72368

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomemdalloc error path When startcreating fails and returns -ENOMEM, it has already released the parent directory lock in...

CVE-2026-72368

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomemdalloc error path When startcreating fails and returns -ENOMEM, it has already released the parent directory lock in startdirop: static struct dentry startdirop... ... inodelocknesteddir,...

CVE-2026-72368

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomemdalloc error path When startcreating fails and returns -ENOMEM, it has already released the parent directory lock in startdirop: static struct dentry startdirop... ... inodelocknesteddir,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72368

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomemdalloc error path When startcreating fails and returns -ENOMEM, it has already released the parent directory lock in startdirop: static struct dentry startdirop... ... inodelocknesteddir,...

CVE-2026-72368 cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomem_d_alloc error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomemdalloc error path When startcreating fails and returns -ENOMEM, it has already released the parent directory lock in startdirop: static struct dentry startdirop... ... inodelocknesteddir,...

EUVD-2026-59267

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomemdalloc error path When startcreating fails and returns -ENOMEM, it has already released the parent directory lock in startdirop: static struct dentry startdirop... ... inodelocknesteddir,...

CVE-2026-72368

In the Linux kernel, CVE-2026-72368 describes a double unlock in the nomem_d_alloc path of cachefiles: after start_creating() fails with -ENOMEM, __start_dirop() releases the parent lock, but nomem_d_alloc in cachefiles_get_directory() unconditionally unlocks d_inode(dir) again, corrupting the rw...

CVE-2026-72368 cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomem_d_alloc error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomemdalloc error path When startcreating fails and returns -ENOMEM, it has already released the parent directory lock in startdirop: static struct dentry startdirop... ... inodelocknesteddir,...

PT-2026-72556

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix double unlock in nomem d alloc error path When start creating fails and returns -ENOMEM, it has already released the parent directory lock in start dirop: static struct dentry start dirop... ... inode lock...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-68150

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - fs/super: fix emergency thaw double-unlock of sumount dothawall iterates over all superblocks via iteratesupers with SUPERITEREXCL, which acquires sumount...

CVE-2026-68150

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/super: fix emergency thaw double-unlock of sumount dothawall iterates over all superblocks via iteratesupers with SUPERITEREXCL, which acquires sumount exclusively before calling the callback and releases it afterwards. Howeve...