CVE-2026-72366 Affecting kernel-azure-extra package, versions <6.12.0-160000.38.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELAZUREEXTRA-20330052
  • published30 Sept 2026
  • disclosed22 Sept 2026

Introduced: 22 Sep 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-azure-extra to version 6.12.0-160000.38.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-azure-extra package and not the kernel-azure-extra package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 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

version 3.1