CVE-2026-23250 (GCVE-0-2026-23250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-18 17:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:03
VLAI
Title
xfs: check return value of xchk_scrub_create_subord
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: check return value of xchk_scrub_create_subord Fix this function to return NULL instead of a mangled ENOMEM, then fix the callers to actually check for a null pointer and return ENOMEM. Most of the corrections here are for code merged between 6.2 and 6.10.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 1a5f6e08d4e379a23da5be974aee50b26a20c5b0 , < d6f3f7d4dd8a179394cef03c00993d57f5f68601 (git)
Affected: 1a5f6e08d4e379a23da5be974aee50b26a20c5b0 , < 2b658d1249666cc55af9484dcf5f45ca438d4ecc (git)
Affected: 1a5f6e08d4e379a23da5be974aee50b26a20c5b0 , < b2df809edd8cb7d1c3e19d9f6aabc2bd55d2bfb6 (git)
Affected: 1a5f6e08d4e379a23da5be974aee50b26a20c5b0 , < ca27313fb3f23e4ac18532ede4ec1c7cc5814c4a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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