CVE-2026-43063 (GCVE-0-2026-43063)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-05 15:23
Modified
2026-08-05 12:25
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EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfs: don't irele after failing to iget in xfs_attri_recover_work
xlog_recovery_iget* never set @ip to a valid pointer if they return
an error, so this irele will walk off a dangling pointer. Fix that.
References
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Impacted products
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Sightings
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