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CVE-2026-43474 (GCVE-0-2026-43474)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 14:22 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:25
VLAI
Title
fs: init flags_valid before calling vfs_fileattr_get
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: init flags_valid before calling vfs_fileattr_get syzbot reported a uninit-value bug in [1]. Similar to the "*get" context where the kernel's internal file_kattr structure is initialized before calling vfs_fileattr_get(), we should use the same mechanism when using fa. [1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fuse_fileattr_get+0xeb4/0x1450 fs/fuse/ioctl.c:517 fuse_fileattr_get+0xeb4/0x1450 fs/fuse/ioctl.c:517 vfs_fileattr_get fs/file_attr.c:94 [inline] __do_sys_file_getattr fs/file_attr.c:416 [inline] Local variable fa.i created at: __do_sys_file_getattr fs/file_attr.c:380 [inline] __se_sys_file_getattr+0x8c/0xbd0 fs/file_attr.c:372
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 CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: be7efb2d20d67f334a7de2aef77ae6c69367e646 , < 379e19e820dd1c6145426b97467728b3b89c0b42 (git)
Affected: be7efb2d20d67f334a7de2aef77ae6c69367e646 , < b8c182b2c8c44c6016b11d8af61715ad7ef958a1 (git)
Affected: be7efb2d20d67f334a7de2aef77ae6c69367e646 , < cb184dd19154fc486fa3d9e02afe70a97e54e055 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.19 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.9 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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