Tracker / CVE-2026-45915
CVE-2026-45915
Medium 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir Corrupted FAT images can leave a directory inode with an incorrect i_nlink (e.g. 2 even though subdirectories exist). rmdir then unconditionally calls drop_nlink(dir) and can drive i_nlink to 0, triggering the WARN_ON in drop_nlink(). Add a sanity check in vfat_rmdir() and msdos_rmdir(): only drop the parent link count when it is at least 3, otherwise report a filesystem error.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.19 → 5.10.252 |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.202 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.165 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.14 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.4 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.128 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.75 |
Analysis
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