PT-2026-72349 · Git+4 · Kernel+140

CVE-2026-72161

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Published

2026-08-15

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Updated

2026-08-18

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Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description A NULL pointer dereference occurs during the unmount process. The function ocfs2 journal shutdown() frees the journal and sets the osb->journal variable to NULL. Subsequently, when the Virtual File System (VFS) evicts remaining cached inodes, the execution flow through ocfs2 evict inode(), ocfs2 clear inode(), ocfs2 checkpoint inode(), and ocfs2 ci fully checkpointed() attempts to dereference osb->journal, leading to a system crash.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

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Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-72161

Affected Products

Kernel
Linux
Linux-Allwinner-5.19
Linux-Aws
Linux-Aws-5.0
Linux-Aws-5.11
Linux-Aws-5.13
Linux-Aws-5.19
Linux-Aws-5.3
Linux-Aws-5.8
Linux-Aws-6.14
Linux-Aws-6.17
Linux-Aws-6.2
Linux-Aws-6.5
Linux-Aws-6.8
Linux-Aws-7.0
Linux-Aws-Fips
Linux-Azure
Linux-Azure-5.11
Linux-Azure-5.13
Linux-Azure-5.19
Linux-Azure-5.3
Linux-Azure-5.8
Linux-Azure-6.11
Linux-Azure-6.14
Linux-Azure-6.17
Linux-Azure-6.2
Linux-Azure-6.5
Linux-Azure-6.8
Linux-Azure-7.0
Linux-Azure-Edge
Linux-Azure-Fde
Linux-Azure-Fde-5.19
Linux-Azure-Fde-6.14
Linux-Azure-Fde-6.17
Linux-Azure-Fde-6.2
Linux-Azure-Fde-6.8
Linux-Azure-Fde-7.0
Linux-Azure-Fips
Linux-Azure-Nvidia
Linux-Azure-Nvidia-6.14
Linux-Bluefield
Linux-Fips
Linux-Gcp
Linux-Gcp-5.11
Linux-Gcp-5.13
Linux-Gcp-5.19
Linux-Gcp-5.3
Linux-Gcp-5.8
Linux-Gcp-6.11
Linux-Gcp-6.14
Linux-Gcp-6.17
Linux-Gcp-6.2
Linux-Gcp-6.5
Linux-Gcp-6.8
Linux-Gcp-7.0
Linux-Gcp-Fips
Linux-Gke
Linux-Gke-4.15
Linux-Gkeop-5.15
Linux-Gke-5.4
Linux-Gkeop
Linux-Hwe
Linux-Hwe-5.11
Linux-Hwe-5.13
Linux-Hwe-5.19
Linux-Hwe-5.8
Linux-Hwe-6.11
Linux-Hwe-6.14
Linux-Hwe-6.17
Linux-Hwe-6.2
Linux-Hwe-6.5
Linux-Hwe-6.8
Linux-Hwe-7.0
Linux-Hwe-Edge
Linux-Ibm
Linux-Ibm-6.8
Linux-Intel-5.13
Linux-Intel-Iot-Realtime
Linux-Lowlatency
Linux-Lowlatency-Hwe-5.19
Linux-Lowlatency-Hwe-6.11
Linux-Lowlatency-Hwe-6.2
Linux-Lowlatency-Hwe-6.5
Linux-Lowlatency-Hwe-6.8
Linux-Lts
Linux-Nvidia
Linux-Nvidia-6.11
Linux-Nvidia-6.17
Linux-Nvidia-6.2
Linux-Nvidia-6.5
Linux-Nvidia-6.8
Linux-Nvidia-7.0
Linux-Nvidia-Bos
Linux-Nvidia-Lowlatency
Linux-Nvidia-Tegra
Linux-Oem
Linux-Oem-5.10
Linux-Oem-5.13
Linux-Oem-5.14
Linux-Oem-5.17
Linux-Oem-5.6
Linux-Oem-6.0
Linux-Oem-6.1
Linux-Oem-6.11
Linux-Oem-6.14
Linux-Oem-6.17
Linux-Oem-6.5
Linux-Oem-6.8
Linux-Oem-7.0
Linux-Oracle
Linux-Oracle-5.0
Linux-Oracle-5.11
Linux-Oracle-5.13
Linux-Oracle-5.3
Linux-Oracle-5.8
Linux-Oracle-6.14
Linux-Oracle-6.17
Linux-Oracle-6.5
Linux-Oracle-6.8
Linux-Oracle-7.0
Linux-Raspi
Linux-Raspi-Realtime
Linux-Raspi2
Linux-Realtime
Linux-Realtime-6.14
Linux-Realtime-6.17
Linux-Realtime-6.8
Linux-Riscv
Linux-Riscv-5.11
Linux-Riscv-5.19
Linux-Riscv-5.8
Linux-Riscv-6.14
Linux-Riscv-6.17
Linux-Riscv-6.5
Linux-Riscv-6.8
Linux-Riscv-7.0
Linux-Starfive-5.19
Linux-Starfive-6.2
Linux-Starfive-6.5
Linux-Xilinx