VDB
GHSA-m267-vw57-h3jp
GHSA-m267-vw57-h3jp
PUBLISHED
CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH
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.
Risk Scores
CVSS 4.0
8.699999809265137
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- Mar 18, 2026 CVE Published
- Mar 25, 2026 CVE Updated
- Apr 10, 2026 Security Advisory
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23252 advisory
- 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://git.kernel.org/stable/c/695455fbc49053cbf555f2f302a5dcd600f412ff url