CVE-2024-26736: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Increase buffer size in afs_update_volume_status() The max length of volume->vid value is 20 characters. So increase idbuf[] size up to 24 to avoid overflow. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. [DH: Actually, it's 20 + NUL, so increase it to 24 and use snprintf()]

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.15, before 5.4.270 (fixed in 5.4.270); from 5.5, before 5.10.211 (fixed in 5.10.211); from 5.11, before 5.15.150 (fixed in 5.15.150); from 5.16, before 6.1.80 (fixed in 6.1.80); from 6.2, before 6.6.19 (fixed in 6.6.19); from 6.7, before 6.7.7 (fixed in 6.7.7); …

Published 2024-04-03. Last modified 2026-08-04.