hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()") requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/ S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for special inodes.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
1737 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()") requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/ S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for special inodes.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67407d6abc9520a8a4661285b3ed294eb73ff6e7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/676bc99d0b3e356cdfec5d8204518e1aac14ec84
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/799c492a619a10322543d13e6d2a6d27335c868c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9353d4ee26dc33f6ada1646e84660f4c59189763
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d209ebaee93fc5089101d34d1b38a91d7abb03fd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcac5582f90b55a267d89769073c5651990b2ec5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de9affb698d5034888314880736925c39d6d048e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed8889ca21b6ab37bc1435c4009ce37a79acb9e6
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/43xxx/CVE-2026-43268.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43268