High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2026· Updated Oct 19, 2026

CVE-2026-97584

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.

Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:linux/kernel pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 6.12.111+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.111
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.9-1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/044d596094af4b769fb8e1173dff0d08bd68db6cnvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/349e713039a1fd6659c27e7a66238bfa49ce37e9nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/981d72663dee2fa6efaf202293e68d2b10a0d1d4nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5bc0fa9959dc8f7eb1afab7c039594a16a1a65cnvd

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