Medium · published June 25, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories
The operations FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE allow the
FUSE daemon to actively write/read pagecache contents.
For directories with FOPEN_CACHE_DIR, the pagecache is used as
kernel-internal cache storage, and userspace is not supposed to have
direct access to this cache - in particular, fuse_parse_cache() will hit
WARN_ON() if the cache contains bogus data.
Reject FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE on anything other than
regular files with -EINVAL.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 4.20, < 5.10.259 | 5.10.259 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.210 | 5.15.210 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.176 | 6.1.176 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.143 | 6.6.143 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.94 | 6.12.94 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.13, < 6.18.36 | 6.18.36 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.19, < 7.0.13 | 7.0.13 |
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