CVE-2026-98141
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.01
BB Relevance:
36/100
Published: 2026-09-25
Modified: 2026-10-27
First seen: 2026-10-29
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: ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of set_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes the just-written reparse data as cleanup but still returns 0, so symlink(2) (and WSL special file creation) reports success while no reparse data exists on disk. When there was no previous reparse data (oldsize == 0), the failure was likewise silently ignored. Propagate the error to the caller.
Weakness Classification (1)
Affected Software (2)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 – 7.2.7 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.3 |
References & Advisories (2)
Patch
Patch