MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-97584 (CVSS 7.8)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 25, 2026Risk 23/100
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.
Technical details
CVSS
7.8
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:LowUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High
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