CVE-2026-45915 (GCVE-0-2026-45915)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:17 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:17
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Title
fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir Corrupted FAT images can leave a directory inode with an incorrect i_nlink (e.g. 2 even though subdirectories exist). rmdir then unconditionally calls drop_nlink(dir) and can drive i_nlink to 0, triggering the WARN_ON in drop_nlink(). Add a sanity check in vfat_rmdir() and msdos_rmdir(): only drop the parent link count when it is at least 3, otherwise report a filesystem error.
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Linux Linux Affected: 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673 , < 7fe0de287e931e07cb96ecf1f449b2ebdb0e1115 (git)
Affected: 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673 , < 9894c79fd9466612d0514be157b5c30cd93aa645 (git)
Affected: 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673 , < cd569b87378b9c33ae13c23d6bb9d205d66f7c4b (git)
Affected: 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673 , < d3b7ffa90f613938128432c7b2f35b7aa4bdd86b (git)
Affected: 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673 , < 955c5d670b5ae07c78f4345e23a895638db96ce1 (git)
Affected: 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673 , < 17866f8a0822d414cb02e621cf003a7d04396ef8 (git)
Affected: 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673 , < d0bb592fa9def2bace90ac8926c0a1d6fa8c1aa0 (git)
Affected: 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673 , < 8cafcb881364af5ef3a8b9fed4db254054033d8a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.252 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.202 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.14 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.4 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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