CVE-2026-23252

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2026-03-18 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: get rid of the xchk_xfile_*_descr calls The xchk_xfile_*_descr macros call kasprintf, which can fail to allocate memory if the formatted string is larger than 16 bytes (or whatever the nofail guarantees are nowadays). Some of them could easily exceed that, and Jiaming Zhang found a few places where that can happen with syzbot. The descriptions are debugging aids and aren't required to be unique, so let's just pass in static strings and eliminate this path to failure. Note this patch touches a number of commits, most of which were merged between 6.6 and 6.14.

Affected Software (6)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux ab97f4b1c030750f2475bf4da8a9554d02206640 < 695455fbc49053cbf555f2f302a5dcd600f412ff
Linux Linux ab97f4b1c030750f2475bf4da8a9554d02206640 < 18e9cf2259b4157fd282b323514375f2f6a59edb
Linux Linux ab97f4b1c030750f2475bf4da8a9554d02206640 < 2d8afee89262762fe0e5547772708c75f320c957
Linux Linux ab97f4b1c030750f2475bf4da8a9554d02206640 < 60382993a2e18041f88c7969f567f168cd3b4de3
Linux Linux 6.10
linux linux_kernel 6.10 – 6.12.78

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.14%
Raw Score 0.001420
Percentile 3.5%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00142
2026-11-13
0.00142
2026-11-12
0.00130
2026-11-10
0.00130
2026-11-09
0.00130
2026-11-08
0.00130
2026-11-07
0.00130
2026-11-06
0.00130
2026-11-05
0.00130

Intelligence Sources

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