Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting kernel-rt-debug-kvm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELRTDEBUGKVM-20547987
  • published7 Oct 2026
  • disclosed15 Aug 2026

Introduced: 15 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-72366  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 kernel-rt-debug-kvm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-debug-kvm package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs: Fix netfs_create_write_req() to handle async cache object creation

netfs_create_write_req() will skip caching if the fscache cookie is disabled, but this is a problem because async cache object creation might not have got far enough yet that has been enabled - thereby causing the call to fscache_begin_write_operation() to be skipped.

Fix this by removing the checks on the cookie and delegating this to fscache_begin_write_operation().

CVSS Base Scores

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