# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97584"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:04.322Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:09:47.944Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97584"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97584.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97584"
title: "afs: Fix incorrect free in candidate cleanup in afs_lookup_server()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: Fix incorrect free in candidate cleanup in afs_lookup_server()\n\nFix afs_lookup_server() to not free an existing server's endpoint state\nwhen cleaning up a candidate server.  The candidate record doesn't have an\nendpoint state yet at this point, so the free for that can just be removed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d6aa05cd995830f6dcee7b139335edb266de38a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"981d72663dee2fa6efaf202293e68d2b10a0d1d4"},{"version":"4882ba78574e2d8c579658f65f6784b0d139d173","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5bc0fa9959dc8f7eb1afab7c039594a16a1a65c"},{"version":"4882ba78574e2d8c579658f65f6784b0d139d173","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"349e713039a1fd6659c27e7a66238bfa49ce37e9"},{"version":"4882ba78574e2d8c579658f65f6784b0d139d173","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"044d596094af4b769fb8e1173dff0d08bd68db6c"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.111"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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