CVE-2026-97584

Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/044d596094af4b769fb8e1173dff0d08bd68db6c 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/349e713039a1fd6659c27e7a66238bfa49ce37e9 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/981d72663dee2fa6efaf202293e68d2b10a0d1d4 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5bc0fa9959dc8f7eb1afab7c039594a16a1a65c 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-97584.json.

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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: Fix incorrect free in candidate cleanup in afs_lookup_server()\n\nFix afs_lookup_server() to not free an existing server's endpoint state\nwhen cleaning up a candidate server.  The candidate record doesn't have an\nendpoint state yet at this point, so the free for that can just be removed."
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              "value": "AV:L - afs_lookup_server() is reached through afs_create_volume()/afs_update_volume_state() -> afs_alloc_server_list() when a local process walks a kAFS path (for example /afs/<cell>/<vol> automount) or uses a volume. Nothing malformed comes off the wire. The defect is local cleanup logic that frees the wrong object, so the attacker needs a local account on the AFS client.\nAC:L - The candidate is left non-NULL when afs_install_server() returns an existing record. That happens when the attacker runs parallel lookups of volumes on the same fileserver UUID, or accesses the path again after a creation attempt failed and left the record marked UNCREATED. Both states come from the attacker's own path accesses; neither depends on outside conditions.\nPR:L - Mounting kAFS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN (no FS_USERNS_MOUNT). On a client that already has the /afs dynroot mounted, any unprivileged user can start the volume and server lookups that reach afs_lookup_server() just by accessing /afs/<cell>/... paths.\nUI:N - No victim action is needed; the attacker triggers the lookups and the faulty cleanup with their own filesystem accesses.\nS:U - The memory corruption stays inside the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The cleanup at the out: label kfree()s the existing server's live, refcounted afs_endpoint_state. server->endpoint_state and in-flight probe/rotate operations still reference it, giving a use-after-free of a sprayable kmalloc object that can be reclaimed to leak kernel data.\nI:H - After the bad kfree(), afs_put_endpoint_state() and the probe code keep writing refcounts, flags and the addresses pointer into the freed estate. When the refcount later drops to zero it is freed a second time via call_rcu, so a reclaimed object gets corrupted.\nA:H - The freed estate is later used and double-freed, and on the create_failed and wait_for_creation failure paths `server` is NULL when server->endpoint_state is read. Either way the kernel oopses or panics."
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    "datePublished": "2026-09-25T10:22:04.322Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-24T16:01:01.156Z",
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