{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72218 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72218 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72218 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72218 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72218 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72218/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72218/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72218","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72218/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72218","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-72218","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72218","GHSA-mwwg-vq2v-v2c8","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72218"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A refcount leak in the Linux kernel lockd module allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by exhausting file resources.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlockd: Plug nlm_file refcount leak on cached nlm_do_fopen() failure\n\nThe cached-file path in nlm_lookup_file() reaches the found: label\nunconditionally, even when nlm_do_fopen() fails. At that label\n*result and file-\u003ef_count are updated before the error is returned.\nThe wrappers nlm3svc_lookup_file() and nlm4svc_lookup_file() then\nbail out of their switch without copying *result back to their\ncaller, so the proc handler's local nlm_file pointer remains NULL\nand the cleanup path skips nlm_release_file(). The f_count\nincrement is never released, and nlm_traverse_files() can no\nlonger reap the file because its refcount never returns to zero\nbetween requests.\n\nShort-circuit the cached path so neither *result nor f_count is\ntouched when nlm_do_fopen() fails on a hashed nlm_file.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"lockd: Plug nlm_file refcount leak on cached nlm_do_fopen() failure","id":"CVE-2026-72218","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"lockd: Plug nlm_file leak when nlm_do_fopen() fails","id":"CVE-2026-72219"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"SUNRPC: Bound-check xdr_buf_to_bvec() stores before writing","id":"CVE-2026-72217"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A refcount leak in the Linux kernel lockd module allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by exhausting file resources.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72218/"}