CVE-2024-26612: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs, fscache: Prevent Oops in fscache_put_cache() This function dereferences "cache" and then checks if it's IS_ERR_OR_NULL(). Check first, then dereference.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.17, before 6.1.76 (fixed in 6.1.76); from 6.2, before 6.6.15 (fixed in 6.6.15); from 6.7, before 6.7.3 (fixed in 6.7.3); version 6.8 only

Published 2024-03-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.