CVE-2026-74596 (GCVE-0-2026-74596)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-22 15:31
Modified
2026-08-22 15:31
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare() The check that fs-verity is available in the kernel is not necessary here. Filesystems could have fsverity files even without fs-verity enabled. In that case, truncate on fsverity file will succeed, what this check is trying to prevent.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: e9734653c523c744f03333ece6ae7a315187f05c
Version: e9734653c523c744f03333ece6ae7a315187f05c
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