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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-72438 (HIGH 7.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid10: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on discard failures raid10_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with md_write_start() before calling raid10_handle_discard(). Several fail

[NVD] CVE-2026-72438 (HIGH 7.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid10: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on discard failures raid10_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with md_write_start() before calling raid10_handle_discard(). Several fail

lownvdPublished 2026-08-15

CVE-2026-72438 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2026-08-15T06:22:17.660

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

md/raid10: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on discard failures

raid10_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with md_write_start() before calling raid10_handle_discard(). Several failure paths in raid10_handle_discard() complete the bio

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CVE-2026-72438cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72438