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FKIE_CVE-2026-43268

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-06 12:16 - Updated: 2026-05-08 21:02

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()") requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/ S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for special inodes.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fd	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.12

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CVE-2026-43268 (GCVE-0-2026-43268)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:28 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:21

Title

hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcac5582f90b55a26…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/799c492a619a10322…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/676bc99d0b3e356cd…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de9affb698d503488…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d209ebaee93fc5089…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67407d6abc9520a8a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9353d4ee26dc33f6a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed8889ca21b6ab37b…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048e (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fd (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (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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CVE-2026-43268 (GCVE-0-2026-43268)

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