CVE-2026-74596 (GCVE-0-2026-74596)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:31 – Updated: 2026-08-22 15:31
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Title
fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare() The check that fs-verity is available in the kernel is not necessary here. Filesystems could have fsverity files even without fs-verity enabled. In that case, truncate on fsverity file will succeed, what this check is trying to prevent.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e9734653c523c744f03333ece6ae7a315187f05c , < 2d2b2ed7bdcc6df4942292318c5455b5e94ba525 (git)
Affected: e9734653c523c744f03333ece6ae7a315187f05c , < d2f96bcb89d36d488a10e3bcf819b98536968286 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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