{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72340 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72340 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72340 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72340 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72340 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-2026-72340/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72340/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72340","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72340/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72340","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-72340","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72340","GHSA-57m3-p558-ghpc","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72340"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel networking","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's Microchip VCAP driver allows concurrent access to corrupt hardware entries, potentially causing data corruption or denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: microchip: vcap: fix races on the shared Super VCAP block\n\nThe VCAP instances on a chip are not independent, yet they are locked\nindependently. On sparx5 and lan969x the IS0 and IS2 instances are\nbacked by the same Super VCAP hardware block and share its cache and\ncommand registers: every access drives the shared VCAP_SUPER_CTRL\nregister and moves data through the shared cache registers.\n\nAccessing one instance therefore races with accessing another. The\nper-instance admin-\u003elock cannot prevent this, as each instance takes a\ndifferent lock.\n\nThe locking issue is mostly disguised by the fact that the core usage of\nthe vcap api runs under rtnl. However, the full rule dump in debugfs\ndecodes rules straight from hardware (a READ command followed by a cache\nread) and runs outside rtnl, so it races a concurrent tc-flower rule\nwrite to another Super VCAP instance.\n\nBesides corrupting the dump, the read repopulates the shared cache\nbetween the writers cache fill and its write command, so the writer\ncommits the wrong data and corrupts the hardware entry.\n\nIntroduce vcap_lock() and vcap_unlock() helpers and route every rule\nlock site in the VCAP API and its debugfs code through them. Replace the\nper-instance admin-\u003elock with a single mutex in struct vcap_control that\nserializes access to all instances. The helpers reach it through a new\nadmin-\u003evctrl back-pointer, and the clients initialise and destroy the\ncontrol lock instead of a per-instance one.\n\nNo path holds more than one instance lock, so collapsing them onto a\nsingle mutex cannot self-deadlock.","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":"net: microchip: vcap: fix races on the shared Super VCAP block","id":"CVE-2026-72340","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"race_condition","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"net/mlx5e: Fix publication race for priv-\u003echannel_stats[]","id":"CVE-2026-72341"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"qede: fix off-by-one in BD ring consumption on build_skb failure","id":"CVE-2026-72339"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's Microchip VCAP driver allows concurrent access to corrupt hardware entries, potentially causing data corruption or denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72340/"}