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CVE-2026-89618

eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei()

Published 56 d ago · modified 19 d ago · JSON

CVSS
—
not scored
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.2%
percentile 7%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei()

eventfs_create_dir() allocates the eventfs_inode and initializes it with init_ei(). But this does not initialize the eventfs_inode list_heads. If the eventfs_create_dir() fails due to memory pressure, it will call free_ei() before it initialized the lists, and that checks to make sure the eventfs_inode has no children. But because the list wasn't initialized, it will give a false warning.

Fix it by moving the list initialization into init_ei().

[ Rewrote change log ]

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.18% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs.

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Technology feeds
Linux kernel (RSS, critical only)

References

Sources

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