Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
This Linux kernel vulnerability concerns the pNFS block layout driver (pnfs/blocklayout), where device resources can leak when parsing a concat or stripe device fails. The source does not describe an attacker-triggered impact, such as denial of service or code execution, and gives few details on how a leak would be reached. Affected kernels are listed as versions from 3.18 onward, with fixes in the listed stable releases (6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.110, 6.18.52); upgrade to a fixed version for your branch. No workaround is listed.
Not analysed yet
We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.
Severity and exploitation
No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
Sources
References from the CNA
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/710ae187a5d490a894054d17645cf5c83d37dfbf
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/51d162dfb618f6cf3aa5e331c0305e27771ad884
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a2494964edac2a13e82441c2bf887548dc3be0b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e1c36b206c659cf94c6755a1d821ed1babd32bc
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/23e4162405c456ce12c772d5882d306135e828ae
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c056f817e4200fb18079d5052c273a22f191ff0a