CVE-2026-23252

xfs: get rid of the xchk_xfile_*_descr calls

published March 18, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00127 · 2.1th percentile
Published
2026-03-18T17:01Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 MAR 17:01Z
    xfs: get rid of the xchk_xfile_*_descr calls
    cvelistv5