CVE-2026-43268
hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files
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Summary
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.
Timeline
- CVE published
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Affected versions
- Linux Linux
Version range not reported
- Linux Linux
2.6.12
References 8
git.kernel.org
- stable/c/dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5
- stable/c/799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c
- stable/c/676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84
- stable/c/de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048e
- stable/c/d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fd
- stable/c/67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7
- stable/c/9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763
- stable/c/ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6