CVE record · CVE-2026-74617

dibs: initialise dibs->lock in dibs_dev_alloc()

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0044 · 38th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 22 Aug 2026, 15:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 to before fe79571f40434b257d68cbfb7b3ae93a794d8a11 git affected cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 to before 2926031acba100d0c18fcfaa7a2ed29609318848 git affected cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 to before c27e360545373b7aee9862a5beef3b9fb3df0c25 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.18 unaffected before 6.18 semver unaffected 6.18.45 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.1.9 to 7.1., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-74617
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 22 Aug 2026
Updated: 16 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0044, the 38th percentile, on 15 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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