Vulnerability in Linux

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.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 6f61076406251626be39651d114fac412b1e0c39, 2.6.27, 0

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