CVE-2026-23252
ANALYSIS PENDINGxfs: get rid of the xchk_xfile_*_descr calls
Title source: cnaDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: get rid of the xchk_xfile_*_descr calls The xchk_xfile_*_descr macros call kasprintf, which can fail to allocate memory if the formatted string is larger than 16 bytes (or whatever the nofail guarantees are nowadays). Some of them could easily exceed that, and Jiaming Zhang found a few places where that can happen with syzbot. The descriptions are debugging aids and aren't required to be unique, so let's just pass in static strings and eliminate this path to failure. Note this patch touches a number of commits, most of which were merged between 6.6 and 6.14.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Scores
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
7.8%
Details
Status
published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel
6.10.0 - 6.12.78linux
linux/Kernel
6.13.0 - 6.18.16linux
linux/Kernel
6.19.0 - 6.19.6linux
Linux/Linux
< 6.10
Linux/Linux
6.10
Linux/Linux
6.12.78 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux
6.18.16 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux
6.19.6 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux
7.0
Linux/Linux
7.0-rc1
... and 4 more
Published
Mar 18, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 18, 2026