CVE-2026-43268

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5; >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c; >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84; >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048e; >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fd; >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7; >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763; >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6
LinuxLinux2.6.12

References

Timeline

Published
May 6, 2026
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2026-43268: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix