CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-45861

Vulnerability intelligence

Published May 27, 2026Sources checked Nov 11, 2026

7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-45861 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Nov 5, 2026

Release Notes

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-45861?

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

gfs2: Fix slab-use-after-free in qd_put

Commit a475c5dd16e5 ("gfs2: Free quota data objects synchronously") started freeing quota data objects during filesystem shutdown instead of putting them back onto the LRU list, but it failed to remove these objects from the LRU list, causing LRU list corruption. This caused use-after-free when the shrinker (gfs2_qd_shrink_scan) tried to access already-freed objects on the LRU list.

Fix this by removing qd objects from the LRU list before freeing them in qd_put().

Initial fix from Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>.

Source: NVD