CVE-2026-23252
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
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | *, 6.19.6, * |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.10, 6.10, 6.10 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/695455fbc49053cbf555f2f302a5dcd600f412ff (circl)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e9cf2259b4157fd282b323514375f2f6a59edb (circl)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d8afee89262762fe0e5547772708c75f320c957 (circl)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60382993a2e18041f88c7969f567f168cd3b4de3 (circl)
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
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/695455fbc49053cbf555f2f302a5dcd600f412ff url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e9cf2259b4157fd282b323514375f2f6a59edb url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d8afee89262762fe0e5547772708c75f320c957 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60382993a2e18041f88c7969f567f168cd3b4de3 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23252 advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00154.html advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00148.html advisory