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CVE-2026-23252

CVE-2026-23252 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.02% · 4.5th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.02%
4.5th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux*, 6.19.6, *
linuxlinux_kernel6.10, 6.10, 6.10

Timeline

  • Mar 18, 2026 CVE Published
  • Mar 19, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Mar 20, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Mar 21, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Mar 22, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Mar 22, 2026 Coalition ESS Score
  • Mar 23, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Mar 24, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Mar 25, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Mar 25, 2026 CVE Updated
  • Mar 29, 2026 Security Advisory
  • May 18, 2026 EPSS Score
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