{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-74728 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-74728 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 22 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-2026-74728 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-74728 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 22 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-2026-74728 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-2026-74728/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-74728/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-74728","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-74728/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-74728","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-74728","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-74728","GHSA-rrpq-4xmf-c84j","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-74728"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel XFS filesystem can cause a system crash when buffer allocation fails, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"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\nxfs: handle NULL b_addr in xfs_buf_free\n\nWhen xfs_buf_alloc_backing_mem() fails, xfs_buf_free() is called with\nbp-\u003eb_addr still NULL.  The code falls through to the folio_put path\nwhich calls virt_to_folio(NULL), dereferencing an invalid address and\ncausing a kernel crash.\n\n Call Trace:\n  xfs_buf_free+0x25f/0x510\n  xfs_buf_alloc+0xc98/0x19b0\n  xfs_buf_find_insert+0x55/0x14d0\n  xfs_buf_get_map+0x122b/0x17c0\n  xfbtree_init_leaf_block+0x11c/0x4a0\n  xfbtree_init+0x1bb/0x460\n  xrep_rmap_setup_scan+0x100/0x1f0\n  xrep_rmapbt+0x41/0xc0\n\nFix this by skipping folio_put() when bp-\u003eb_addr is NULL.","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":"xfs: handle NULL b_addr in xfs_buf_free","id":"CVE-2026-74728","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"soc: aspeed: lpc-snoop: Fix usercopy overflow in snoop_file_read","id":"CVE-2026-74729"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ovpn: skip rehash for peers already removed from by_id","id":"CVE-2026-74727"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-22","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":"2026-10-21","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel XFS filesystem can cause a system crash when buffer allocation fails, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-74728/"}