CVE-2026-53168 PUBLISHED

fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories

The operations FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE allow the FUSE daemon to actively write/read pagecache contents.

For directories with FOPEN_CACHE_DIR, the pagecache is used as kernel-internal cache storage, and userspace is not supposed to have direct access to this cache - in particular, fuse_parse_cache() will hit WARN_ON() if the cache contains bogus data.

Reject FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE on anything other than regular files with -EINVAL.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5d7bc7e8680c7ca4c8a4f139ce2a54ccb8131ef0 to 15487f98863dc7156ed43c5be26d478beb82ba35 (excl.)
  • affected from 5d7bc7e8680c7ca4c8a4f139ce2a54ccb8131ef0 to bd23fa0c16c5c86e5b7713224ffbb87d9db81cca (excl.)
  • affected from 5d7bc7e8680c7ca4c8a4f139ce2a54ccb8131ef0 to 9dbf1b2fadfc6c40805631d8a8276d1639fc9ab6 (excl.)
  • affected from 5d7bc7e8680c7ca4c8a4f139ce2a54ccb8131ef0 to dd92773d4d9cea010474eb08a5133c14ff6ab53a (excl.)
  • affected from 5d7bc7e8680c7ca4c8a4f139ce2a54ccb8131ef0 to 99c317d7f8b7bbf3de16d20a01f363e390114cea (excl.)
  • affected from 5d7bc7e8680c7ca4c8a4f139ce2a54ccb8131ef0 to 12df4cfa738aefff21756728e91056d7defb0fe6 (excl.)
  • affected from 5d7bc7e8680c7ca4c8a4f139ce2a54ccb8131ef0 to e692f0cb86204dcdb9dddc0b355407eda6394a67 (excl.)
  • affected from 5d7bc7e8680c7ca4c8a4f139ce2a54ccb8131ef0 to 9c954499d43aefac01c5dfb57a82b13d2dcf4b94 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.20 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.20 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.259 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.210 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.176 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.143 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.94 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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