CVE-2026-68149 (GCVE-0-2026-68149)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 11:59 – Updated: 2026-08-17 04:59
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Title
fs: preserve ACL_DONT_CACHE state in forget_cached_acl()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: preserve ACL_DONT_CACHE state in forget_cached_acl() The ACL_DONT_CACHE state is meant to be a constant state for the inode for filesystems that want to opt out of posix acl caching. Commit facd61053cff1 ("fuse: fixes after adapting to new posix acl api") used this facility to opt out of posix acl caching for fuse inodes with fuse server that does not negotiate FUSE_POSIX_ACL (fc->posix_acl). The commit also takes care to gate the forget_all_cached_acls() call in fuse_set_acl() on fc->posix_acl because there is no need for it, but there are other placed in fuse code which call forget_all_cached_acls() unconditional to fc->posix_acl and those cause the loss of the ACL_DONT_CACHE state. This is not only a functional bug. Properly timed, a get_acl() from this fuse filesystem can return a stale cached value, as was observed in tests, because set_acl() does not invalidate the unintentional acl cache. We could fix this in fuse, but it actually makes no sense for the vfs helper forget_cached_acl() to invalidate the ACL_DONT_CACHE state, so let it not do that to fix fuse and future users of ACL_DONT_CACHE.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6 , < b98fad81f1202b0eb26aacf3ff4cc7a21ed3b5bf (git)
Affected: facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6 , < 834ddf899484a2f23129080e8773bc04f4691d07 (git)
Affected: facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6 , < a019b074903b3ad0a9726087efd0e8291452023b (git)
Affected: facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6 , < ca03a7984a34f48085fd013e0d2cf4e6420b4acf (git)
Affected: facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6 , < 4b9a5458d02e214ef2b384124ca626e3e381d778 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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