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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43106"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T07:40:34.365Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:25:56.425Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43106"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43106.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43106"
title: "cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull()\n\nThe patch mentioned below changed cachefiles_bury_object() to expect 2\nreferences to the 'rep' dentry.  Three of the callers were changed to\nuse start_removing_dentry() which takes an extra reference so in those\ncases the call gets the expected references.\n\nHowever there is another call to cachefiles_bury_object() in\ncachefiles_cull() which did not need to be changed to use\nstart_removing_dentry() and so was not properly considered.\nIt still passed the dentry with just one reference so the net result is\nthat a reference is lost.\n\nTo meet the expectations of cachefiles_bury_object(), cachefiles_cull()\nmust take an extra reference before the call.  It will be dropped by\ncachefiles_bury_object()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7bb1eb45e43c4730cbc5a48b9e9295049fccdacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6577df7dc7a7de128442b6192c7a32195c923480"},{"version":"7bb1eb45e43c4730cbc5a48b9e9295049fccdacb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1635c2acdde86c4f555b627aec873c8677c421ed"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"6.19.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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