CVE-2026-43268

hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files

published May 6, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.1th percentile
Published
2026-05-06T11:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAY 11:28Z
    hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files
    cvelistv5