CVE-2026-43268

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868caffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048eaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fdaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6affected
LinuxLinux2.6.12affected
LinuxLinux0 < 2.6.12unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.252 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.202 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.165 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.128 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.75 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.16 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.19.6 <= 6.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References