Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-72096

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-verity: make error counter atomic The error counter "v->corrupted_errs" was not atomic, thus it could be subject to race conditions. The call to dm_audit_log_target("max-corrupted-errors") may be skipped due to the races.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 65ff5b7ddf0541f2b6e5cc59c47bfbf6cbcd91b8, 4.1, 0

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