Bug 2516811 (CVE-2026-74426) - CVE-2026-74426 kernel: afs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree()
Summary: CVE-2026-74426 kernel: afs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74426
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:34 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-19 10:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:34:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

afs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree()

afs_alloc_sbi() uses kzalloc for memory allocation. And, if
ctx->dyn_root is not null, as->cell and as->volume are null.
In trace_afs_get_tree() they are dereferenced.

KASAN error message:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 2 PID: 18478 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 5.10.246-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1
04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:perf_trace_afs_get_tree+0x1d9/0x550
include/trace/events/afs.h:1365

Call Trace:
trace_afs_get_tree include/trace/events/afs.h:1365 [inline]
afs_get_tree+0x922/0x1350 fs/afs/super.c:599
vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 fs/super.c:1572
do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3011 [inline]
path_mount+0x14a5/0x2220 fs/namespace.c:3341
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3354 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3562 [inline]
__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3539 [inline]
__x64_sys_mount+0x283/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3539
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.


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