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          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure\n\nupdate_reparse_data() ignores the return value of\nset_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes\nthe just-written reparse data as cleanup but still returns 0, so\nsymlink(2) (and WSL special file creation) reports success while\nno reparse data exists on disk. When there was no previous reparse\ndata (oldsize == 0), the failure was likewise silently ignored.\n\nPropagate the error to the caller."
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