CVE-2026-72219 Affecting kernel-azure-vdso package, versions <6.12.0-160000.39.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELAZUREVDSO-21357246
  • published21 Oct 2026
  • disclosed12 Oct 2026

Introduced: 12 Oct 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-azure-vdso to version 6.12.0-160000.39.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-azure-vdso package and not the kernel-azure-vdso 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:

lockd: Plug nlm_file leak when nlm_do_fopen() fails

A client can repeatedly drive nlm_do_fopen() failures by presenting file handles that the underlying export rejects. After kzalloc_obj() succeeds in nlm_lookup_file(), the freshly allocated nlm_file is not yet inserted into nlm_files[]. The nlm_do_fopen() failure path jumps to out_unlock, which releases nlm_file_mutex and returns without freeing the allocation, so each failure leaks one nlm_file.

Route the failure through out_free so kfree() runs before the function returns.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1