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CVE-2026-74400 (GCVE-0-2026-74400)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:59 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:18
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Title
bpf: fix crash in bpf_[set|remove]_dentry_xattr for negative dentries
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix crash in bpf_[set|remove]_dentry_xattr for negative dentries bpf_set_dentry_xattr and bpf_remove_dentry_xattr BPF kfuncs attempt to lock the inode of the supplied dentry without checking if it is NULL. If a negative dentry is passed (e.g. from security_inode_create), d_inode(dentry) returns NULL, and inode_lock(inode) will cause a NULL pointer dereference. Trivially fix this by adding a NULL check for inode before attempting to lock it, returning -EINVAL if it is NULL. Additionally, drop WARN_ON(!inode) in bpf_xattr_read_permission() and bpf_xattr_write_permission(). These warnings could be triggered by passing a negative dentry to bpf_get_dentry_xattr() or the _locked variants of the xattr kfuncs, potentially causing a Denial of Service on systems with panic_on_warn enabled. Instead, simply return -EINVAL.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 56467292794b800164df20c076c409ac548e56ec , < e003f3a4be738f650e283e92d07017c3fef8da52 (git)
Affected: 56467292794b800164df20c076c409ac548e56ec , < 0160edf2af51c5fde742973742c5d10497901b21 (git)
Affected: 56467292794b800164df20c076c409ac548e56ec , < 07410646f6ff1d23222f105ccab778957d401bbe (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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