CVE-2026-72374: afs: Fix callback service message parsers to pass through -EAGAIN

Published Aug 15, 2026
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Updated

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

afs: Fix callback service message parsers to pass through -EAGAIN

The AFS filesystem client uses an rxrpc server to listen for callback notifications. Each callback call type handler has a delivery function that parses the incoming request stream, and this should return -EAGAIN the last packet hasn't yet been seen, but all currently queued received data is consumed. afsextractdata() does this, but the -EAGAIN return is switched to 0 inadvertantly

Fix callback service message parsers to pass through -EAGAIN

Event History

Aug 15, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:56 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:56 AM
Description
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