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CVE-2026-43268

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()") requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/ S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for special inodes.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:5182f1e30cbe5d01b487225feacd119f6df9364c43b6a3d556c83774dcc94a68
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["fs/hfsplus/super.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5","status":"affected","version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c","status":"affected","version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84","status":"affected","version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a…

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["fs/hfsplus/super.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"2.6.12"},{"lessThan":"2.6.12","status":"unaffected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","status":"unaffected","version":"5.10.252","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","status":"unaffected","version":"5.15.202","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","status":"unaffected","version":"6.1.165","versionType":"semver"},{"lessTh…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["fs/hfsplus/super.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5","status":"affected","version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c","status":"affected","version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84","status":"affected","version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Source references

8 source assertions
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fd"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048e"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:2dd4c8ebfbaab835d64bf09df85dde254db46bd77fec489e2ac1d2e557a928c1 · sha256:491b61ad3b4596ea… · /containers/cna/references/7

Attribution and limitations

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