CVE-2026-74330

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: configfs: fix lockless traversals of ->s_children Having the parent directory locked protects entries from removal by another thread, but it does *not* protect cursors from being moved around by lseek() - or freed, for that matter.

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2026-08-15

Modified

2026-10-16

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/459860529c109c5ce08b81c0776ca1200eaaeb4a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/637ef4961470e04455102b34ac484a34d8eca0a4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77fd6f50f633a52c2db061e7d71d8cb486b0265e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91f289728ec706b7ff1ca0ee845dd73ff2253488
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b9e8bb81c41fd27e7b57a1c936fde140548535f

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