GHSA-frxf-jp28-379q · Severity: high — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: fix incorrect...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull() The patch mentioned below changed cachefiles_bury_object() to expect 2 references to the 'rep' dentry. Three of the callers were changed to use start_removing_dentry() which takes an extra reference so in those cases the call gets the expected references. However there is another call to cachefiles_bury_object() in cachefiles_cull() which did not need to be changed to use start_removing_dentry() and so was not properly considered. It still passed the dentry with just one reference so the net result is that a reference is lost. To meet the expectations of cachefiles_bury_object(), cachefiles_cull() must take an extra reference before the call. It will be dropped by cachefiles_bury_object().
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-43106 is rated Low Risk (31.9/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.11%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.02% | 0.11% | +0.09% |
| 2 | 2026-05-06 | — | 0.02% | — |
Full EPSS history (2 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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1.8 | 5.9 | 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 |
GHSA-frxf-jp28-379q · Severity: high — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: fix incorrect...
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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debian
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unimportant | CVE-2026-43106 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-43106 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43106 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2026-43106 severity moderate: SUSE including 21 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 198 product×package rows across 39 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, … (39 product lines)): Known Not Affected 198. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43106/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2026-43106 medium priority: Ubuntu including 161 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1449 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1047, ignored 169, not-affected 144, released 84, needs-triage 5. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-43106 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.19, < 6.19.14 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* |