CVE-2026-72161 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package, versions <1-150700.1.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELLIVEPATCH640150700778RT-20935851
  • published14 Oct 2026
  • disclosed13 Oct 2026

Introduced: 13 Oct 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt to version 1-150700.1.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ocfs2: add journal NULL check in ocfs2_checkpoint_inode()

During unmount, ocfs2_journal_shutdown() frees the journal and sets osb->journal to NULL. Later, when VFS evicts remaining cached inodes, ocfs2_evict_inode() -> ocfs2_clear_inode() -> ocfs2_checkpoint_inode() -> ocfs2_ci_fully_checkpointed() dereferences osb->journal, causing a NULL pointer dereference.

Fix this by adding a NULL check for osb->journal in ocfs2_checkpoint_inode(). If the journal is NULL, it has already been fully flushed and destroyed during shutdown, so there is nothing to checkpoint.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1