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HIGHCVE-2026-43106Published Modified CNA Linux

CVE-2026-43106: cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull() The patch mentioned below changed cachefiles_bury_object() to expect 2 references to the 'rep' dentry. Three of the callers were changed to use start_removing_dentry() which takes an extra reference so in those cases the call gets the expected references. However there is another call to cachefiles_bury_object() in cachefiles_cull() which did not need to be changed to use start_removing_dentry() and so was not properly considered. It still passed the dentry with just one reference so the net result is that a reference is lost. To meet the expectations of cachefiles_bury_object(), cachefiles_cull() must take an extra reference before the call. It will be dropped by cachefiles_bury_object().

Metrics

CVSS v3.1
7.8
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
0
Affected Products
2

Fix available

01635c2acdde86c4f555b627aec873c8677c421ed6.19.146577df7dc7a7de128442b6192c7a32195c9234807.0
Affected packages
  • Linux / Linux
    < 6577df7dc7a7de128442b6192c7a32195c923480 (from 7bb1eb45e43c4730cbc5a48b9e9295049fccdacb) · < 1635c2acdde86c4f555b627aec873c8677c421ed (from 7bb1eb45e43c4730cbc5a48b9e9295049fccdacb)
  • Linux / Linux
    6.19
    Fixed in 0, 6.19.14, 7.0
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H