CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72453

Low risk· EPSS 10%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's regcache mechanism, when the populate() callback returns an error and cache operations include an exit callback, the error code is overwritten with the return value of exit(). This hides the error from the caller of regcache_init() and can lead to NULL pointer dereferences.

Risk Assessment

Hiding the error can lead to system crash (NULL pointer dereference) on later regcache access.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel fix that does not overwrite the error code in regcache.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regcache: Do not overwrite error code when finalizing cache after error During regcache initialization, if an error occurs in the cache_ops->populate callback, and if cache operations include an exit callback, the error code from populate() is overwritten with the return value from exit(). This hides the error condition from the caller of regcache_init(), and can cause NULL pointer dereferences when the regcache is later accessed.

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