Linux kernel hfsplus: special inode treated as regular file (CVE-2026-43268)
CVE-2026-43268 Published on May 6, 2026

hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files
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.

NVD


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Affected Versions

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