Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96366.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-96366
Upstream
Published
2026-08-15T06:21:13Z
Modified
2026-08-29T05:27:27Z
Summary
CVE-2026-72042 affecting package kernel 6.6.150.1-1
Details

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

ipmi: Fix user refcount underflow in event delivery

ipmiallocrecvmsg(user) takes the temporary user reference owned by the receive message, and ipmifreerecvmsg() drops it again. If event delivery fails after allocating receive messages for earlier users, handlereadeventrsp() rolls those messages back with ipmifreerecvmsg().

That rollback path still drops user->refcount explicitly after freeing each message. The extra put can free a user that remains linked on intf->users, so later event delivery may dereference a freed user or trip refcountt's addition-on-zero warning when ipmiallocrecvmsg() tries to acquire another reference.

Remove the stale explicit put and the now-dead user assignment. Keep the listdel() and ipmifreerecvmsg() calls; they are the required rollback operations.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
6.6.150.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96366.json"