CVE-2026-43063 (GCVE-0-2026-43063)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-05 15:23
Modified
2026-10-19 19:06
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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Linux Linux Version: ae673f534a30976ce5e709c4535a59c12b786ef3
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