Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.12.10,6.12.114)[6.13,6.18.40)[6.19,7.1.5)
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- published11 Oct 2026
- disclosed15 Aug 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 15 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-72367 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.114, 6.18.40, 7.1.5 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the iomap_writeback_handle_eof process. An attacker can access or modify data beyond the intended end-of-file boundary by triggering concurrent write and truncate operations, which can cause the io_size variable to wrap and expose or corrupt unintended on-disk extents. This is only exploitable if the attacker has write and truncate permissions on the target file and can control concurrent I/O operations.
Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst