CVE-2026-43187

Medium

Published: —Translated: 17/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified and resolved in the Linux kernel. It concerns the deletion of empty attribute leaf freemap entries.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to improper management of attributes in the XFS filesystem, potentially affecting data integrity.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: delete attr leaf freemap entries when empty Back in commit 2a2b5932db6758 ("xfs: fix attr leaf header freemap.size underflow"), Brian Foster observed that it's possible for a small freemap at the end of the end of the xattr e