CVE-2026-23252 — Linux vulnerability
8 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 93.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 18
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 sta…
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxab97f4b1c030750f2475bf4da8a9554d02206640 — 695455fbc49053cbf555f2f302a5dcd600f412ff+4
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-m267-vw57-h3jp: 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↗2026-03-18
OSV▶
CVE-2026-23252: 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 ka↗2026-03-18