{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72440 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72440 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72440 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72440 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72440 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-2026-72440/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72440/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72440","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72440/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72440","record":{"aliases":["AZL-96588","BELL-CVE-2026-72440","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72440","GHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72440"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A bug in the Linux kernel's RAID1 driver causes resource leaks on write failures, potentially leading to a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures\n\nraid1_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with\nmd_write_start() before calling raid1_write_request(). Several failure\npaths in raid1_write_request() complete the bio and return without\nreaching the normal write completion path, causing the corresponding\nmd_write_end() to be skipped.\n\nMake raid1_write_request() return a status indicating whether the write\nrequest was successfully queued. This allows raid1_make_request() to\ncall md_write_end() when raid1_write_request() fails.\n\nAdditionally, if wait_blocked_rdev() fails after wait_barrier()\nsucceeds, the associated barrier reference is not released.\n\nCall allow_barrier() before returning from that path to keep the barrier\naccounting balanced.","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":"md/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures","id":"CVE-2026-72440","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"ieee802154: fix kernel-infoleak in dgram_recvmsg()","id":"CVE-2026-72441"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"md/raid10: fix writes_pending leak on write request failures","id":"CVE-2026-72439"},"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":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-21","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A bug in the Linux kernel's RAID1 driver causes resource leaks on write failures, potentially leading to a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72440/"}