CVE-2026-64057 afs: Fix the locking used by afs_get_link()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix the locking used by afsgetlink The afs filesystem in the kernel doesn't do locking correctly for symbolic links. There are a number of problems: 1 It doesn't do any locking around afsreadsingle to prevent races between...

PT-2026-61374

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The afs filesystem in the kernel implements incorrect locking for symbolic links. This leads to several issues, including a lack of locking around the afs read single function, which can...

CVE-2021-37701

The npm package "tar" aka node-tar before versions 4.4.16, 5.0.8, and 6.1.7 has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achieve...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-37701

The npm package "tar" aka node-tar before versions 4.4.16, 5.0.8, and 6.1.7 has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achieve...