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CVE-2026-43268

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch inv…

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.12.1 before 5.10.252
from 5.11 before 5.15.202
from 5.16 before 6.1.165
from 6.2 before 6.6.128
from 6.7 before 6.12.75
from 6.13 before 6.18.16

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