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        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: propagate errors from xfs_rtginode_load\n\nxfs_rtginode_ensure() treats every xfs_rtginode_load() error other than\n-ENOENT as success.  This can leave the realtime group inode unset after an\nI/O, allocation, or corruption error.  Growfs then continues as though the\ninode had been loaded.\n\nOnly -ENOENT means that the inode needs to be created.  Return all other\nerrors to the growfs caller."
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            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
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              "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached only through the local XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSRT ioctl (xfs_file_ioctl -\u003e xfs_growfs_rt -\u003e xfs_growfs_rtg -\u003e xfs_rtginode_ensure); it is not exposed via NFS, ksmbd, or any network packet handler.\nAC:L - A growfs caller can reliably force xfs_rtginode_load() to return a non-ENOENT error using attacker-influenced conditions such as memory pressure, RT device/metadata I/O faults, or corrupted rtgroup inode state, deterministically entering the swallowed-error path.\nPR:L - xfs_growfs_rt() gates on capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN), which is satisfied by user-namespace root per kernel CNA guidance; only a writable file descriptor on a realtime-enabled XFS mount is additionally required, not init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker with the required capability and mount write access issues XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSRT directly; no separate victim action such as opening files or mounting the filesystem is needed beyond that.\nS:U - Impact is a host kernel crash or on-disk XFS realtime metadata corruption within the same kernel security domain; it does not cross a VM, container, or IOMMU isolation boundary.\nC:N - The failure mode is an unset rtgroup inode pointer followed by NULL xfs_inode dereference during growfs; there is no use-after-free, out-of-bounds read, or other kernel memory disclosure primitive.\nI:H - Continuing growfs after rtgroup inode load failures lets superblock and realtime bitmap/summary update paths proceed while critical metadata inodes were never loaded, corrupting on-disk XFS realtime metadata integrity (notably on zoned growfs paths that can commit before crashing).\nA:H - When growfs proceeds with NULL rtgroup bitmap or summary inodes, xfs_growfs_rt_bmblock and xfs_rtfile_initialize_blocks dereference the missing xfs_inode and trigger a kernel oops or panic, denying system availability."
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    "cveId": "CVE-2026-80538",
    "datePublished": "2026-08-26T14:37:12.767Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-08-26T14:34:25.765Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-08-27T05:01:28.422Z",
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