CVE-2026-43168 (GCVE-0-2026-43168)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:19
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Title
ocfs2: fix reflink preserve cleanup issue
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix reflink preserve cleanup issue commit c06c303832ec ("ocfs2: fix xattr array entry __counted_by error") doesn't handle all cases and the cleanup job for preserved xattr entries still has bug: - the 'last' pointer should be shifted by one unit after cleanup an array entry. - current code logic doesn't cleanup the first entry when xh_count is 1. Note, commit c06c303832ec is also a bug fix for 0fe9b66c65f3.
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Linux Linux Affected: 0fe9b66c65f3ff227da45381afe7612f91e32740 , < c44d86ca949cb1e5566ad14510cc26fa1a17e2d8 (git)
Affected: 0fe9b66c65f3ff227da45381afe7612f91e32740 , < 02acc9f72365e50eb45a56b7dacb9114ca3b503c (git)
Affected: 0fe9b66c65f3ff227da45381afe7612f91e32740 , < 8ff329353134280b203cb2bce95311cb8f7cbd8a (git)
Affected: 0fe9b66c65f3ff227da45381afe7612f91e32740 , < bb273b68c1719c2925e05557f7e7099edb066680 (git)
Affected: 0fe9b66c65f3ff227da45381afe7612f91e32740 , < b2952dbeac2c3c527cb0519d5ffaeb95b062466a (git)
Affected: 0fe9b66c65f3ff227da45381afe7612f91e32740 , < 3bdc3766aafb052aef4baadef455a84c1c0a059d (git)
Affected: 0fe9b66c65f3ff227da45381afe7612f91e32740 , < 2f4daccd9d9b8b2952df7878df8c2e8ba6439398 (git)
Affected: 0fe9b66c65f3ff227da45381afe7612f91e32740 , < 5138c936c2c82c9be8883921854bc6f7e1177d8c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.32
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.32 (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: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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