CVE-2026-43268 PUBLISHED

hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 06.05.2026 Updated: 06.05.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048e (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fd (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 5.10.252 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.202 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.16 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.6 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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