What is GHSA-8vm6-jvf8-6w38?

GHSA-8vm6-jvf8-6w38 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix missing locking...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-8vm6-jvf8-6w38 cover?

GHSA-8vm6-jvf8-6w38 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-64068. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-8vm6-jvf8-6w38?

GHSA-8vm6-jvf8-6w38 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-8vm6-jvf8-6w38CriticalCVSS 9.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix missing locking...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 19, 2026

Last Modified

July 20, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-64068 →

📋 Description

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

netfs: Fix missing locking around retry adding new subreqs

Fix netfs_retry_read_subrequests() and netfs_retry_write_stream() to take the appropriate lock when adding extra subrequests into stream->subrequests.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64068
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/393f3f0d7353a94b1e0bc4ca89c683fe983e5fd2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cce18c263e9623872327ba3c956012f73c1179cc
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8vm6-jvf8-6w38