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CVE-2026-97546

xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them LOLLM noticed that xrep_dir_recover_data can spin forever if it encounters an unused dirent that claims to have length zero. Fix that, and prevent the same thing from happening with a zero-length entry.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 · fixed in 5442f0c56445618544a801fb4dae35aed87a1aaa; From b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 · fixed in 08754ebfa5c28e8d57316b1bd7a5a921a5e2e762; From b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 · fixed in a455c83ce5dc1a2da33b1b84253d298372a8dfbd; From b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 · fixed in 9f84792b40d0c96833341602144574bf0bd14a6a

  • Linux Linux

    6.10

  • KernelLinux

    From 6.10.0 · fixed in 6.12.111; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.53; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.7

References 4

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