CVE-2026-43268

hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 6, 2026
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: May 1, 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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5Affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868cAffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84Affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048eAffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fdAffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7Affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763Affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6Affected
LinuxLinux	2.6.12Affected before 2.6.12Not affected 5.10.252 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.202 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.165 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.128 through 6.6.Not affected 6.12.75 through 6.12.Not affected 6.18.16 through 6.18.Not affected 6.19.6 through 6.19.*Not affected 7.0 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5Affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868cAffected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84Affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048eAffected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fdAffected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7Affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763Affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6Affected

LinuxLinux

2.6.12Affected
before 2.6.12Not affected
5.10.252 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.202 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.165 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.128 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.12.75 through 6.12.*Not affected
6.18.16 through 6.18.*Not affected
6.19.6 through 6.19.*Not affected
7.0 and laterNot affected

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