{"id":"CVE-2026-72364","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-72364","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:35:45.399Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix writeback error handling Fix the error handling in writeback_iter() loop.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Fix writeback error handling\n\nFix the error handling in writeback_iter() loop.  If an error occurs,\nwriteback_iter() needs to be called again with *error set to the error so\nthat it can clean up iteration state.  Further, the current folio needs\nunlocking and redirtying.","published":"2026-08-15T06:22:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-17T06:18:41.000Z","status":"Received","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00171,"percentile":0.06435,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bb33d959aabcde07d724b5eb9992462e91fa79a","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89df9c158a25d0a7c6ca079a9bd9ca7009d75c7b","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac5f95ac5d6d0f4c567b8b642825705a2bf0d79e","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb39ffd3cc5422887fd118668ff45ebfdbc83302","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72364","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}