CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-23252

Published: Mar 18, 2026 | Modified: Mar 18, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfs: get rid of the xchk_xfile_*_descr calls

The xchk_xfile_*_descr macros call kasprintf, which can fail to allocate memory if the formatted string is larger than 16 bytes (or whatever the nofail guarantees are nowadays). Some of them could easily exceed that, and Jiaming Zhang found a few places where that can happen with syzbot.

The descriptions are debugging aids and arent required to be unique, so lets just pass in static strings and eliminate this path to failure. Note this patch touches a number of commits, most of which were merged between 6.6 and 6.14.

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