CVE-2026-43268

MEDIUM

hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (20)
Linux/Linux < 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fd
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048e
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6
Linux/Linux 2.6.12
... and 10 more
Published May 06, 2026
Tracked Since May 06, 2026